Ranajit Guha
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Ranajit Guha is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and edited several early numbers of the group's anthologies. He migrated from India to the UK in the 1960s, and currently lives in Vienna, Austria.
[edit] Writings
Author
- A rule of property for Bengal : an essay on the idea of permanent settlement, Paris [etc.] : Mouton & Co., 1963, New edition: Duke University Press, ISBN 0822317613
- Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1983, New edition: Duke Univ Press, 1999, ISBN 0822323486 - a classic of Subaltern Studies
- Guha, Ranajit, "History at the Limit of World-History" (Italian Academy Lectures), Columbia University Press 2002
- An Indian Historiography of India: A Nineteenth Century Agenda & Its Implications. Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi & Company. 1988.
- Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India, Harvard University Press, 1998
Editor
- (with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), Selected Subaltern Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
- A Subaltern Studies Reader,1986-1995, Univ of Minnesota Press, 1997, ISBN 0816627584
[edit] Secondary literature
- Sathyamurthy, T. V. "Indian Peasant Historiography: A Critical Perspective on Ranajit Guha's Work." In: Journal of Peasant Studies (October 1990) vol.18, no.1, pp.93–141.
