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Ranajit Guha
Indian historian(Professor) · India · On the map · Writers · Lived 1923 to 2023 · aged 99
Ranajit Guha was an Indian historian and the founder of the Subaltern Studies Collective. Guha's scholarship challenged traditional elite-centered narratives, emphasising the agency of peasants and subaltern communities in shaping historical processes.
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His influential works, including Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in independent India, have left a lasting impact on the fields of South Asian history, postcolonial studies, and historiography. Guha was nominated an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1996.
