CONDITION USED GOOD, ELEMENTARY ASPECTS OF PEASANT INSURGENCY IN COLONIAL INDIA , RANAJIT GUHA, HARDCOVER, 1983

A groundbreaking study of peasant uprisings in India between 1783 and 1900, written from the perspective of the insurgents rather than the colonial administration. Challenging the view that rebellions were merely criminal acts, it uncovers the political awareness, moral purpose and symbolic targets that shaped peasant resistance. Through a close reading of counter-insurgency records, it identifies recurring patterns of rebel consciousness and explores how insurgent messages spread, how communities organised and how protest remained locally rooted. An essential work for students of history, sociology and political thought, and a foundational contribution to subaltern studies.