Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:50:07 -0500 (EST)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: M-I: Re: Hegemony, Domination & Convergence 



Have taken a look at Ranajit Guha's new book on colonial India, *Dominance
Without Hegemony* (Harvard), and am rather intrigued by his novel thesis
that India was *not* a colony in any meaningful sense.  Rather, it was a
case of collaboration on the part of a native national elite with
imperialism, and one that never succeeded in establishing hegemony over the
masses.  According to Guha, this helps explain the failures of Indian
Marxism, especially in the so-called "post-colonial" period.

I don't know that much about colonial India, but this sounds suspect to me.
Has anyone here seen Guha's work?  And what do you think of it.  It is part
of a series (*Convergences: Inventories of the Present*) edited by Edward Said.

Louis Godena



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