Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India (repost)
Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India By Ranajit Guha
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1998 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0674214838 | PDF | 16 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1998 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0674214838 | PDF | 16 MB
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.