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• ↓ Editorial: Remembering Ranajit Guha
• ↓ Re-collecting Guha through a counter-archival lens
• ↓ Ranajit Guha: An inspirational and challenging teacher
• ↓ Guha, Indian history, and me
• ↓ Property and the Political Economy of Colonialism
• ↓ Anthropology and Subaltern Historiography: a critically constructive relationship
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"We are very pleased to publish a series of articles, remembering Ranajit Guha, the Indian historian, scholar and founding spirit of ‘subaltern studies’. He died in Austria on April 28th, 2023, at the age of 99. His was a long-life of political engagement and scholarly reflection as set out in the obituary by Vinita Damodaran. Guha made an immense contribution to the social sciences and the humanities beyond the discipline of history."

"Guha was born into a wealthy zamindar or land-owning family in East Bengal. He was active in the Indian Communist Party in the 1940s, but left following the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. He migrated to Britain in 1958 to take up a fellowship at the University of Manchester from where he was appointed Reader in History in the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex in 1962. He left in 1981 for a position at the Australian National University from which he retired in 1988."

"It was while at ANU, and after, that much of the work in subaltern studies for which he became widely known was published. It was incubated during his time at the University of Sussex and the articles published in this issue are drawn from a memorial event – Remembering Ranajit Guha – held at the University of Sussex on October 20th, 2023."

"The articles address his influence within history, anthropology and sociology. They include contributions from former students as well as those who knew him only through his writing. Most contributors have links with the University of Sussex and attest to its unique status at the time when Guha was there. Academics and students were associated with an academic discipline, but were also located in an interdisciplinary school – for example, African and Asian Studies, American Studies, Culture and Community Studies."

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Editorial: Remembering Ranajit Guha

Re-collecting Guha through a counter-archival lens

Ranajit Guha: An inspirational and challenging teacher

Guha, Indian history, and me

Property and the Political Economy of Colonialism

Anthropology and Subaltern Historiography: a critically constructive relationship