History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2015 History
'The Prose of Counter-Insurgency', regarded as a classic statement of the Subaltern School, was written by:
ADavid Arnold
BGayatri Chakravorty Spivak
CRanajit Guha ✓ Correct
DDipesh Chakrabarty
Correct answer: (C) Ranajit Guha — The Prose of Counter-Insurgency was written by Ranajit Guha, so the answer is Ranajit Guha.
Explanation
★The Prose of Counter-Insurgency was written by Ranajit Guha, so the answer is Ranajit Guha.
★It is a classic statement of the Subaltern School of history.
★In it he studied how official records hid the voice of rebel peasants.
★He showed how to read those records against the grain.
★Ranajit Guha was the founder of the Subaltern Studies group.
★The group focused on the history of the common people rather than elites.
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