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An advance 100th birthday greetings  sent to Ranajit Guha by Sumanta Banerjee. Ranajit Guha breathed his last on 28th April 2023 at Vienna Woods in Austria

The idea for his first book came while he was a student of history at the University of Calcutta.

Guha helped establish the Subaltern Studies school of historiography, and shaped the emergence of postcolonial scholarship and non-Eurocentric global history

Eminent historian Ranajit Guha died at his residence in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 100

Guha's influence on postcolonial and subaltern studies is indelible and his work has given birth not just to whole disciplines but also noted experts in these disciplines.

Guha, who was 100 years old, died at his residence in Austria on Friday. He left behind his wife Mechthild.

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

The Subaltern School ushered in a new era in South Asian studies, attempting to provide a historical voice and agency to the subordinated sections of society.

Ranajit Guha breathed his last on 28th April 2023 at Vienna Woods in Austria. Indisputably, he was the greatest historian of the past century, and his passing

A pioneering figure in Subaltern Studies, the movement to mainstream the history of marginalised farmers and their suppressed voice in the Indian subcontinent, Guha’s Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983) is widely considered a classic.