This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha—intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Group—describes from the peasants’ viewpoint the relations of dominance and subordination in rural India from 1783 to 1900.
Challenging the idea that peasants were powerless agents who rebelled blindly against British imperialist oppression and local landlord exploitation, Guha emphasizes their awareness and will to effect political change. He suggests that the rebellions represented the birth of a theoretical consciousness and asserts that India’s long subaltern tradition lent power to the landmark insurgence led by Mahatma Gandhi. Yet as long as landlord authority remains dominant in a ruling culture, Guha claims, all mass struggles will tend to model themselves after the unfinished projects documented in this book.
Students and scholars will welcome this paperback edition of Guha’s 1983 original, which was distributed on a limited scale in the United States. It will influence new generations studying colonialism, postcolonialism, subaltern studies, historiography, anthropology, and Indian, Asian, and Latin American history.

印度著名女演员索娜姆·卡普尔（Sonam Kapoor）将在她的最新电影作品《遇见女孩的感觉》（Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga）中饰演一位女同性恋者。该片剧情呈现女女之爱，被印度媒体认为是宝莱坞首部以同志为主题的主流电影。该影片讲述索娜姆饰演的女生拒绝了追求她的所有男生，只因她真正喜欢的是女生，而为了追求自己真正的爱情，她最终勇敢向亲友出柜的故事。©同志之声

马哈维亚（阿米尔·汗 Aamir Khan 饰）曾经是一名前途无量的摔跤运动员，在放弃了职业生涯后，他最大的遗憾就是没有能够替国家赢得金牌。马哈维亚将这份希望寄托在了尚未出生的儿子身上，哪知道妻子接连给他生了两个女儿，取名吉塔（法缇玛·萨那·纱卡 Fatima Sana Shaikh 饰）和巴比塔（桑亚·玛荷塔 Sanya Malhotra 饰）。让马哈维亚没有想到的是，两个姑娘展现出了杰出的摔跤天赋，让他幡然醒悟，就算是女孩，也能够昂首挺胸的站在比赛场上，为了国家和她们自己赢得荣誉。
就这样，在马哈维亚的指导下，吉塔和巴比塔开始了艰苦的训练，两人进步神速，很快就因为在比赛中连连获胜而成为了当地的名人。为了获得更多的机会，吉塔进入了国家体育学院学习，在那里，她将面对更大的诱惑和更多的选择。

1948年，孟买。饱受争议的知名作家Saadat Hasan Manto因出版多部针砭时事的作品而引起公众愤慨。印巴分治之后，他不得不离开孟买这座深爱的城市，前往巴基斯坦的拉哈尔。他对言论自由的信仰以及对社会边缘人的关怀使得他的流放之旅成为一场悲剧，更使他将心中所有的力量都投注到笔尖之上。

Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story—the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories—of the world's largest and least likely democracy. </p>
Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India. But he writes also of the factors and processes that have kept the country together (and kept it democratic), defying numerous prophets of doom who believed that its poverty and heterogeneity would force India to break up or come under autocratic rule. Once the Western world looked upon India with a mixture of pity and contempt; now it looks upon India with fear and admiration. </p>
Moving between history and biography, this story of modern India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Guha gives fresh insights on the lives and public careers of those long-serving prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. There are vivid sketches of the major "provincial" leaders whose province was as large as a European country: the Kashmiri rebel turned ruler Sheikh Abdullah; the Tamil film actor turned politician M. G. Rama-chandran; the Naga secessionist leader Angami Zapu Phizo; the socialist activist Jayaprakash Narayan. But the book also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser known (though not necessarily less important) Indians—peasants, tribals, women, workers and musicians. </p>
Massively researched and elegantly written, India After Gandhi is at once a magisterial account of India's rebirth and the work of a major scholar at the height of his powers. </p>

本书主要关注了权力在印度的分配方式，认为它在中央集权与地方分权之间实现了一种微妙的平衡，即在没有完全排除边缘阶层的情况下，社会中强势集团的利益得到了满足。书中讨论了民主制度的巩固，也论及了推动或阻碍民主发展的力量，从而全面揭示了印度在探索民主政体构建方面所取得的成功。

电影讲述了一个拥有虔诚宗教信仰的单纯印度男人帮助巴基斯坦哑女与父母重聚的故事。印度教教徒帕万（萨尔曼·汗 饰）在一次机缘巧合下结识了与母亲走失并有语言障碍的穆斯林小女孩沙希达（哈尔莎莉·马尔霍特 饰）。在得知沙希达是巴基斯坦人后，帕万决定帮助她回家，可在回巴基斯坦途中却四处碰壁，遭遇领事馆冲突、被旅游局欺骗之后，帕万立志将不惜一切代价尽其所能带沙希达回到自己的家乡与家人团聚。