Abstract
This entry surveys and discusses the work of historian Ranajit Guha. Locating Guha’s work in the context of the political fault lines of postcolonial India, the entry traces the arc of his work from the study of the making of agrarian property relations in colonial Bengal, via the crafting of a radical new template for the study of subaltern politics in modern India, to his metatheoretical reflections on historiography. Throughout, the entry reflects on Guha’s position in relation to Marxist and postcolonial theory as well as to left politics in India. The entry concludes with a critical discussion of Guha’s work in terms of its failure to discern and discuss the dialectical relationship of power and resistance.
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