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Ranajit Guha

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Ranajit Guha

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性別
男性
生誕
1923-05-23 （Siddhakatti, Backergunge District, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Bangladesh)）
死没
2023-04-28 （Vienna Woods (near Purkersdorf), Austria） 99歳
国籍
Indian
言語
English, Bengali
居住地歴
West Bengal region (India) — early life and education → United Kingdom (Manchester, Sussex) — research and teaching → Australia (Australian National University, Canberra) — later career → Austria (Purkersdorf) — later life/residence

経歴

職業
historian, academic, author, editor
活動期間
1953年〜2023年
所属
Chandernagore Government College (teaching), Jadavpur University, University of Manchester, University of Sussex, Australian National University
影響を受けた人物
Susobhan Sarkar, Antonio Gramsci, D. H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael Madhusudan Dutt
影響を与えた人物
Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

学歴

Mitra Institution (Main)
国: India
Secondary/early education institution
Presidency College, Calcutta
History
学位: BA
国: India
Undergraduate studies (BA)
University of Calcutta
History
学位: MA
国: India
Postgraduate studies (MA)
University of Manchester
History (doctoral research)
学位: PhD
国: United Kingdom
Completed doctoral thesis at the University of Manchester

受賞歴

Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
1996
主催: Australian Academy of the Humanities
結果: 名誉フェローとして選出

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India

1983年 scholarly history

A seminal study re-examining peasant resistance in colonial India as a challenge to elite-centered historiography. Emphasizes the agency of subaltern groups in shaping historical processes.

peasant historycolonial powersubaltern agency

A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement

1963年 scholarly history

An analysis of the idea and implications of the Permanent Settlement in Bengal, examining colonial land regimes and their social effects.

land tenurecolonial administrationsocio-economic history

Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India

1998年 scholarly history

Reconsiders colonial Indian power relations as complex arrangements not fully captured by hegemonic frameworks, discussing dominance and popular resistance.

theory of powercolonial dominancesubaltern studies

全著作

  • A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement (1963)
  • Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983)
  • Subaltern Studies I–VI (edited volumes, 1982–1989)
  • Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India (1998)
  • The Small Voice of History (essays, 2009)

作風・主題

文体
scholarly and analytic proseuse of Marxist and social-historical perspectivescombination of theory and archival evidence
頻出モチーフ
agency of subaltern/marginalized groupspeasant resistance and everyday politicscritique of colonialism and power structures

評価・遺産

Ranajit Guha founded Subaltern Studies and challenged elite-centred historiography, profoundly influencing South Asian history, postcolonial studies, and historiography. He mentored a generation of scholars and helped lay foundations for contemporary postcolonial research.

関連学会

  • Australian Academy of the Humanities (Honorary Fellow)

資料所蔵先

  • Tufts University Archives (oral history materials)
  • University of Sussex archives (professional materials)

引用

  • Using the concept of the subaltern, he challenged elite-centred historiography and sought to place the acts and agency of marginalized people at the centre of history.
    出典: Subaltern Studies (introduction to first volume, 1982) (1982年)

豆知識

  • Known as a founder of the Subaltern Studies collective.
  • Died in 2023 at the age of 99 at his home near Vienna.