Dominance without hegemony : history and power in colonial India
Ranajit Guha
Bok · Engelsk · 1997
| Utgitt | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , cop. 1997
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| Omfang | xvii, 245 s.
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| Opplysninger | 1. Colonialism in South Asia: A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography. I. Conditions for a Critique of Historiography. II. Paradoxes of Power. III. Dominance without Hegemony: The Colonialist Moment. IV. Preamble to an Autocritique -- 2. Discipline and Mobilize: Hegemony and Elite Control in Nationalist Campaigns. I. Mobilization and Hegemony. II. Swadeshi Mobilization. III. Mobilization for Non-cooperation. IV. Gandhian Discipline. V. Conclusion -- 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. III. Colonialism and the Languages of the Colonized. IV. Historiography and the Question of Power. V. A Failed Agenda.. - 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 non-hegemonic state to assimilate the civil society of the colonized to itself. Thus the colonial state, as Guha defines it in this closely argued work, was a paradox--a dominance without hegemony.
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| ISBN | 067421482X. - 0674214838
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