Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance

Author: Hira SinghPublisher: Sage PublicationsYear: 1998Language: EnglishPages: 274ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170366844 DescriptionThe historiography of colonialism in India has, by and large, ignored princely India which covered two-fifths of the country's territory and a quarter of its population. This work corrects this imbalance by providing a trend-setting study which explores the distinct socio-economic formations of the princely states during colonial rule.Instead, the inferences drawn from British India are generally applied to the whole country. Terming this tendency as a colonial mode of historiography, Dr Hiro Singh corrects this imbalance by providing a trend-setting study which explores the distinct socio-economic formations of the princely states during colonial rule.The central argument of the book is that colonial penetration failed to dissolve the pre-capitalist socio-economic order. For from being passive objects, the pre-colonial structures and subjects resisted col