This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha—intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Group—describes from the peasants’ viewpoint the relations of dominance and subordination in rural India from 1783 to 1900.
Challenging the idea that peasants were powerless agents who rebelled blindly against British imperialist oppression and local landlord exploitation, Guha emphasizes their awareness and will to effect political change. He suggests that the rebellions represented the birth of a theoretical consciousness and asserts that India’s long subaltern tradition lent power to the landmark insurgence led by Mahatma Gandhi. Yet as long as landlord authority remains dominant in a ruling culture, Guha claims, all mass struggles will tend to model themselves after the unfinished projects documented in this book.
Students and scholars will welcome this paperback edition of Guha’s 1983 original, which was distributed on a limited scale in the United States. It will influence new generations studying colonialism, postcolonialism, subaltern studies, historiography, anthropology, and Indian, Asian, and Latin American history.
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09 讀完spivak再來讀的,腦袋已經快轉不動瞭;反敘述的部分非常精彩,但是對於史料的運用我還需要適應;算是嚴格意義上庶民研究的第一本,思路非常開眼界。
評分A typically Marxian historical work. The chapter on transmission reveals the role of rumour and other verbal and non-verbal media of knowledge in the structure of insurgency and is very much suggestive to me as a student of material culture. Yet the problem of historical source still appears to me a barrier to the understanding of what and how the
評分核心觀點是農民起義背後有自己的一套心理機製、價值觀、思想和結構。從英國法國印度中國(主要是《湖南農民運動考察報告》)關於農民起義的史料裏挖掘能充實農民起義的基本麵(“否定”、“模糊性”、“形式”、“擴散”和“區域性”)的論據。不是很喜歡這種使用史料的方法,生生掰開再放到不同的名目下,生硬瞭些。對印度史不熟悉,跳過瞭不少。
評分暫時隻讀瞭intro,二十世紀是農民革命的世紀,這本書尤其反對對這些運動的精英化理解(農民需要外部的“領袖”不然會沒方嚮/做過頭,或者農民革命是更大的民族/社會主義革命的一部分),嘗試解釋殖民語境下農民insurgent consciousness的一些普遍、基礎的要素,用的是階級矛盾和Gramsci的集體革命意識分析,用的曆史是從1783到1900英國殖民下且還未被民族主義和社會主義“侵蝕”的印度農民起義。我的問題是,這種農民和精英在話語/意識層麵的不對稱由於有物質和權力不對稱的加持,導緻不可能像“內部矛盾”那樣通過leaderfulness來解決,最終總是前者被吸納到後者的主體中去,可以說二十世紀農民的行動創造瞭曆史,但其主體卻是缺位和displaced的?
評分核心觀點是農民起義背後有自己的一套心理機製、價值觀、思想和結構。從英國法國印度中國(主要是《湖南農民運動考察報告》)關於農民起義的史料裏挖掘能充實農民起義的基本麵(“否定”、“模糊性”、“形式”、“擴散”和“區域性”)的論據。不是很喜歡這種使用史料的方法,生生掰開再放到不同的名目下,生硬瞭些。對印度史不熟悉,跳過瞭不少。
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載