Quote of Ranjit Guha about Women's Voice
“I feel that women’s voice, once it is heard, will activate and make audible the other small voices as well.”
— Ranajit Guha,
Small Voice of History: Collected Essays
Source About this quote : Small Voice of History: Collected Essays
Ranajit Guha was a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies. He migrated from India to the UK in 1959, and currently lives in Vienna, Austria.
His Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India is widely considered to be a classic. Aside from this, his founding statement in the first volume of Subaltern Studies set the agenda for the Subaltern Studies group, defining the "subaltern" as "the demographic difference between the total Indian population and all those whom we have described as the ‘elite’."
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Ranajit guha is arguably the indian historian whose writings have had a massive and formative impact on contemporary scholarship in several disciplines throughout the on postcolonial studies in literature, in anthropology, in history, in cultural studies, in art history guha first became known as the practitioner of a critical marxism that ran parallel to the work of british and french marxist historians of the 1960s and 1970s but which, instead of recreating a history from below, sought active political engagement with the present by deploying insights drawn from gramsci and mao more recently, guhas writings have drawn attention to the phenomenological and the everyday and been noticed for their sustained critique of the disciplinary practices of history-writing guhas reputation rests most famously on his international role as founder and guiding spirit of subaltern studies, the series of essays and monographs that have, over the past three decades, critiqued colonialist and nationalist historiographies while spawning new ways of thinking about history in europe, latin america and the usa, these have created a ferment richer than anything else emerging out of modern south asia, even as they have unsettled many existing frameworks of thought guhas fascinatingly diverse historical and political writings, dating from the 1950s and tucked away in obscure journals and collections, have been virtually they are brought together for the first time in the present volume, which comprises his collected essays in english, forty-four in number these writings have been put together by partha chatterjee, whose long association with guha as a founder-member of the subaltern studies editorial board is complemented by his own international stature as a historian, political theorist and public intellectual chatterjees introduction sketches the professional life and intellectual trajectory of indias most profoundly influential modern historian
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