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Sumit Guha

This book explores why the state and elites let subalterns speak even while oppressing them

An excerpt from ‘History & Collective Memory In South Asia: 1200-2000’, by Sumit Guha.

Sumit Guha
· Apr 16, 2020 · 08:30 am
What Europeans contributed to the caste system in India

It is known what the word comes from ‘casta’ in Portuguese. But when the Iberians came to Asia and the Americas, they began classifying people by descent.

Sumit Guha
· Jun 27, 2018 · 01:30 pm