Said engaged Guha’s biography rather than his historical scholarship

Evidence

Then, even with reference to A Rule of Property, Said quotes only from the introduction and only the biographical detail; he is curiously indifferent to the immense body of writing on the Permanent Settlement which has accumulated in India over the decades, before Guha’s book and since. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 396

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking whether later Said scholarship or critics have confirmed or rebutted this claim of substantive disengagement.