Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 3

by 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.

338 pages, Paperback

First published April 23, 1993

About the author

Ranajit Guha was a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies. He migrated from India to the UK in 1959, and currently lives in Vienna, Austria.
His Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India is widely considered to be a classic. Aside from this, his founding statement in the first volume of Subaltern Studies set the agenda for the Subaltern Studies group, defining the "subaltern" as "the demographic difference between the total Indian population and all those whom we have described as the ‘elite’."