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1	Selected Subaltern Studies more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha (Editor), Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Editor), Professor Edward W Said (Foreword by) This book collects ten essays from the five volumes of Subaltern Studies that have so far appeared. The aim of the studies is to 'promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. ... see all copies from $24.99! new only from $37.23! \| SVS
2	Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha The historiography of peasant insurgency has hitherto been a record of the colonial administration's effort to deal with insurgents. Guha's work adopts the peasant's viewpoint and studies "the peasant rebel's awareness of his own world and his will to change it". see all copies from $16.95! new only from $24.20! \| SVS
3	Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha "A Rule of Property for Bengal" is a classic work on the history of colonial India. First published in 1963, and long unavailable in this country, it is an essential text in the areas of colonial and postcolonial studies. In this book, Ranajit Guha examines the British establishment of the Permanent Settlement of Bengal--the first major ... see all copies from $22.26! new only from $22.26!
4	History at the Limit of World-History more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most ... see all copies from $8.54! new only from $9.61! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society Volume V more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha (Editor) This is a reissue in Oxford India Paperbacks of the previous paperback edition of this work. see all copies from $10.40! new only from $10.40!
6	A Subaltern Studies Reader,1986-1995 more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha (Editor) The Subaltern Studies Collective, founded in 1982, was begun with the goal of examining the subsequent history of colonized countries. This new group of essays from the Collective's founders chart the course of subaltern history from early peasant revolts and insurgency to more complex processes of domination and subordination in a variety of ... see all copies from $9.98! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
7	Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society Volume VI more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha (Editor) The categories of domination and subordination briefly enunciated by the editor in the first volume of the series are more fully explored in this, the sixth volume of Subaltern Studies. Extracts from the reviews '..about India since the nineteenth century. In the present collection of six essays and two smaller comments the history of mentality is ... see all copies from $11.79! new only from $17.05! \| first editions
8	Bhishma, Volume One: Including the "Bhagavad Gita" in Context more books like this by Alex Cherniak (Translator), Professor Ranajit Guha (Foreword by) "Bhishma," the sixth book of the eighteen-book epic "The Maha-bharata," narrates the first ten days of the great war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. This first volume covers four days from the beginning of the great battle and includes the famous "Bhagavad-gita" ("The Song of the Lord"), presented here within its original epic context. In ... see all copies from $21.34! new only from $21.34! \| SVS
9	Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society Volume II more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha (Editor) see all copies from $17.25! new only from $17.25! \| first editions
10	Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state in South Asia was fundamentally different from the metropolitan bourgeois state which sired it. The metropolitan state was hegemonic in character, and its claim to dominance was based on a power relation in which persuasion outweighed coercion. ... see all copies from $28.13! new only from $28.13! \| SVS
11	Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society Volume IV more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha (Editor) Extracts from the reviews of the hardback edition 'This fourth volume...of immensely readable essays...comes as a bonus...'Indian Express '...the essays adhere to the fairly straightforward task of resurrecting for posterity the autonomous traditions of protest among groups of tribals or peasants, in response to the growing control of the colonial ... see all copies from $19.38! new only from $23.00! \| first editions
12	Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society Volume III more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha (Editor) These essays unearth and analyze the nature of subaltern consciousness and dissent across a variety of India's regions during the colonial period. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $160.27!
13	Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society Volume I more books like this by Professor Ranajit Guha (Editor) Some extracts from reviews: '...the radically new programme of historical research initiated by a group of historians ...has firmly established itself as perhaps the most interesting approach in the field of South Asian Studies ...' Indian Book Chronicle '...brings home to us the urgent need to advance the frontiers of historical investigation ... ... see all copies from $27.00! new only from $27.00! \| first editions

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