Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 2

by Ranajit Guha (Editor)

The eight essays here are addressed to a wide range of topics extending in time from the Mughal period to the 1970's, and in theme from communalism to industrial labour.

358 pages, Paperback

First published January 14, 1992

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’."