Guha treated women and peasants alike as agents needing historical restoration

Evidence

It is not surprising, therefore, that in addition to seeking to restore agency to the peasantry, Ranajit Guha, one of the founders of the Subaltern Studies Proj ect, also called for historians to treat women as agents, rather than instruments, of various movements (Guha 1996, 12 ). — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 72

Categorization

• XREF: Confirms women-and-peasant ‘restore the voice’ trope unifies the very Subaltern Studies lineage the reader’s postcolonial cluster draws on — useful mapping grist.