{"product_id":"dominance-without-hegemony-9780674214835","title":"Dominance without Hegemony","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is colonialism and what is a colonial state? In exploring these questions, Ranajit Guha points out that the South Asian colonial state was a historical paradox. Britain may have ruled India as a colony, but it never achieved hegemony over most of the population, collaborating with the nationalist elite but never persuading the masses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanajit Guha is, arguably, the most creative Indian historian of this century. His works have deeply influenced not only the writing of subcontinental history, but also historical investigations elsewhere, as well as cultural studies, literary theories, and social analyses across the world. -- Amartya Sen\u003cbr\u003eAside from its obvious relevance to Indian history, Guha's book is a brilliant example of revolutionary historical method, new perspectives on nationalist history, and theoretical inventiveness in the procedures of historical research. -- Edward W. Said\u003cbr\u003eOver the years, the result of this endeavor has been the production of an eclectic brand of ideological theories, an incisive critique of the existing Indian historiography, and a renewed theoretical fervor, as this book itself epitomizes, for retrieving the history of the  \"subaltern\" past – their revolutionary political moments and cultural class consciousness. -- Amalendu K. Chakraborty * Journal of World History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Note on Transliteration    PART 1: Colonialism in South Asia: A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography   I. Conditions for a Critique of Historiography  Dominance and Its Historiographies  Containment of Historiography in a Dominant Culture  Where Does Historical Criticism Come From?  The Universalizing Tendency of Capital and Its Limitations  The General Configuration of Power in Colonial India   II. Paradoxes of Power  Idioms of Dominance and Subordination  Order and Danda   Improvement and Dharma  Obedience and Bhakti  Rightful Dissent and Dharmic Protest   III. Dominance without Hegemony: The Colonialist Moment  Overdeterminations  Colonialism as the Failure of a Universalist Project  The Fabrication of a Spurious Hegemony  The Bad Faith of Historiography   IV. Preamble to an Autocritique   PART 2: Discipline and Mobilize: Hegemony and Elite Control in Nationalist Campaigns   I. Mobilization and Hegemony  Anticipation of Power by Mobilization  A Fight for Prestige   II. Swadeshi Mobilization  Poor Nikhilesh  Caste Sanctions  Social Boycott  Liberal Politics, Traditional Bans  Swadeshi by Coercion or Consent?   III. Mobilization For Non-cooperation  Social Boycott in Non-cooperation  Gandhi's Opposition to Social Boycott  Hegemonic Claims Contested   IV. Gandhian Discipline  Discipline versus Persuasion  Two Disciplines- Elite and Subaltern  Crowd Control and Soul Control   V. Conclusion   PART 3: An Indian Historiography of India: Hegemonic Implications of a Nineteenth-Century Agenda   I. Calling on Indians to Write Their Own History   II. Historiography and the Formation of a Colonial State  Early Colonial Historiography  Three Types of Narratives   Education as an Instrument of Colonialism  The Importance of English   III. Colonialism and the Languages of the Colonized  Indigenous Languages Harnessed to the Raj  Novels and Histories  Beginnings of an Indigenous Rationalist Historiography  An Ideology of Matribhasha   IV. Historiography and the Question of Power  An Appropriated Past  The Theme of Kalamka  Bahubol and Its Objects   V. A Failed Agenda    Notes   Glossary   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403561836887,"sku":"9780674214835","price":31.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674214835.jpg?v=1730483833","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dominance-without-hegemony-9780674214835","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}