Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India

by Ranajit Guha

Book Overview

Foreword by James Scott

This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha-intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Group-describes from the peasants' viewpoint the relations of dominance and subordination in rural India from 1783 to 1900.
Challenging the idea that peasants were powerless agents who rebelled blindly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323486
• ISBN13: 9780822323488
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"