A closer look
History is written by the victors, which usually means rich guys with armies calling everyone else unhinged savages. Enter Ranajit Guha, who flipped the script on British colonial archives. He proved that what the British dismissed as spontaneous, irrational riots by Indian peasants were actually deeply strategic, highly organized political movements. Guha read the oppressor's police reports backwards to expose the brilliant tactical minds of the oppressed, proving that throwing a brick through a colonizer's window requires both math and motivation.
