Ranajit Guha
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'''Ranajit Guha''' is a [[historian]] of [[South Asia]] who was greatly influential in the [[Subaltern studies|Subaltern Studies group]], and edited several early numbers of the group's [[anthology|anthologies]]. He migrated from [[India]] to the [[United Kingdom|UK]] in the 1960s, and currently lives in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]].
==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, "[http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231124198 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
==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.
==External links==
*[https://risenphoenix.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/ranajit-guha-on-elitist-historiography-an-analysis/ An Analysis of the essay "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India"]
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