Dominance Without Hegemony History and Power in Colonial India

Name: Dominance Without Hegemony History and Power in Colonial India
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ISBN: 9780674214835

ISBN-10: 0674214838

ISBN-13: 9780674214835

Edition: 1997

Authors: Ranajit Guha, Edward W. Said

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What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state in South Asia was fundamentally different from the metropolitan bourgeois state which sired it. The metropolitan state was hegemonic in character, and its claim to dominance was based on a power relation in which persuasion outweighed coercion. Conversely, the colonial state was non-hegemonic, and in its structure of dominance coercion was paramount. Indeed, the originality of the South Asian colonial state lay precisely in this difference: a historical paradox, it was an autocracy set up and sustained in the East by the foremost democracy of the Western world. It was not possible for that…

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List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.13" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.946

Ranajit Guha is founding editor of Subaltern Studies and author of a number of celebrated books, including Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India. He has held various research and teaching positions in India, England, the United States, and Australia. He currently lives in Austria.



Preface


Note on Transliteration



Colonialism in South Asia: A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography



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



Paradoxes of Power Idioms of Dominance and Subordination Order and Danda


Improvement and Dharma Obedience and Bhakti Rightful Dissent and Dharmic Protest



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



Preamble to an Autocritique



Discipline and Mobilize: Hegemony and Elite Control in Nationalist Campaigns



Mobilization and Hegemony Anticipation of Power by Mobilization A Fight for Prestige



Swadeshi Mobilization Poor Nikhilesh Caste Sanctions Social Boycott Liberal Politics, Traditional Bans Swadeshi by Coercion or Consent?



Mobilization For Non-cooperation Social Boycott in Non-cooperation Gandhi's Opposition to Social Boycott Hegemonic Claims Contested



Gandhian Discipline Discipline versus Persuasion Two Disciplines- Elite and Subaltern Crowd Control and Soul Control



Conclusion



An Indian Historiography of India: Hegemonic Implications of a Nineteenth-Century Agenda



Calling on Indians to Write Their Own History



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



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



Historiography and the Question of Power An Appropriated Past The Theme of Kalamka Bahubol and Its Objects



A Failed Agenda Notes


Glossary


Index