Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India

by 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. Conversely, the colonial state was non-hegemonic, and in its structure of dominance coercion was paramount...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0085P53OU
• ISBN13: 9780674214835
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"