Dominance without Hegemony - History and Power in Colonial India

About the author

Ranajit Guha held various research and teaching positions in India, England, the United States, and Australia before his retirement in 1988. He is the founding editor of Subaltern Studies and the author of A Rule of Property for Bengal and Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India.

Summary

What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? In exploring these questions, Ranajit Guha points out that the South Asian colonial state was a historical paradox. Britain may have ruled India as a colony, but it never achieved hegemony over most of the population, collaborating with the nationalist elite but never persuading the masses.

Product details

• Authors: Ranajit Guha
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.1998
• EAN: 9780674214835
• ISBN: 978-0-674-21483-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Convergences: Inventories of the Present; Convergences: Inventories of t; Convergences: Inventories of the Present; Convergences: Inventories of t
• Subject: Non-fiction book