... Abstract In the review of Subaltern Studies I: Writings on South Asian History and Society, 1982 , edited by Ranajit Guha, in the August 1984 issue of JAS (43, no. 4:779–780), the name of the reviewer should read: Sandria B. Freitag. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985...

... preoccupation for the historian is finally explored through Ranajit Guha's invocation of Tagore in History at the Limit of World-History (2002). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 One day, lord L … visited the Babu and his family in Calcutta, and having surprised Aru...

...Sumit Guha Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare . By James L. Hevia . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 . 328 pp. ISBN: 9780226566285 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare is narrower than its title...

...Tapati Guha-Thakurta Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs . By Christopher Pinney . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1998 . 240 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 779...

...Sumit Guha Origins of Nationality in South Asia: Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India . By C. A. Bayly . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 xii, 338 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 256 THE JOURNAL...

...Sumit Guha Chaturvedi also claims that his protagonists expressed an alternative imagined future (pp. 15–16). Yet the surviving evidence is thin and this forces Chaturvedi to interpolate stock ideas of Hindu kingship into the record (pp. 79–81). A single letter from Ranchod proclaiming the end...

...Sumit Guha Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Essays on Population and Space in India . Edited by C. Z. Guilmoto and A. Vaguet . Pondicherry : French Institute of Pondicherry , 2000 . 256 pp. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 749 with Rajni Kothari...

...Sumit Guha Abstract As K. Sivaramakrishnan has pointed out in a paper published in 1993, one of the persistent ironies of postcoloniality “has been the way elites assuming the task of building a national culture and providing it with a liberatory/progressive history have turned to modes...

...Sumit Guha Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 To the Editor: I am grateful to V. Geetha for a careful and generous summary of my book, Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present, in this journal (vol. 74, no. 2 [2015]: 510–11). I...

...Sumit Guha The major arguments (excepting chapter 14) are for continuity rather than drastic change. Mughal suzerainty, Sikh overlordship, the short-lived Gorkha conquest in the early nineteenth century, British colonial rule itself, and finally Indian independence were, Singh suggests, all...

...Sumit Guha Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India since the Great Rebellion . By Maria Misra . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 2008 . xxxiii , 535 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 This book is an engagingly written...

...Walter Hauser Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India . By Ranajit Guha . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1983 . xi, 361 pp. Rs. 140. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 174 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Commission. Once the latter became...

... apt for this volume of the series since, as Ranajit Guha reports in a brief prefatory note, this is the last volume in the Subaltern Studies (SS) series under his editorship. The series has had a remarkable run, begun in 1982 with the first volume and continued through the present, sixth volume...

...Robert G. Varady Social Ecology. Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology . Edited by Ramachandra Guha . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1994 . x, 398 pp. $28.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1129...

... in the Deccan from the time it was absorbed into the Bombay presidency in the early nineteenth century following the defeat of the Maratha peshwa until almost the end of the British rule. It is a revised version of Sumit Guha's doctoral dissertation at Cambridge University. The author begins provocatively...

...Namita Sugandhi Chapter 5 uses the collective arguments developed in preceding chapters to address Guha's perceptions of and concerns about postcolonial scholarship on the Indus civilization. The arguments are extremely significant, reminding contemporary scholars to be wary of replicating...

...V. Geetha Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present . By Sumit Guha . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . 236 pp. $127.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Sumit Guha's Beyond Caste seeks to detach the study of caste from...

... of the remnants in what is known as the Mississippian Shatter Zone. The tribal identities familiar today were thus the response to the catastrophe of European contact. Tribes, as Guha implies, are not ahistorical but, rather, the contingent product of history. If anything, Guha's refreshing insistence...

... on computer policy in India until 1980. It is an important contribution to the field of political economy, which would benefit from other such studies. HARPREET MAHAJAN Columbia University Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. By RANAJIT GUHA. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. xi...

...James R. Hagen The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya . By Ramachandra Guha . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1990 . xxii, 214 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 954 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...