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Constituting an archaeology of certain modes of colonialist knowledge, A Rule of Property for Bengal is most important for its patient elaboration of how modes of knowledge, developed to account for European civil society, are modified in their intersection with the political exigencies of the colonizing project to become hegemonic for both the rulers and the native elites. -David Lloyd, University of California, Berkeley Guha's study, still controversial, remains the decisive study of the Permanent Settlement. -Ronald Inden, University of Chicago

Constituting an archaeology of certain modes of colonialist knowledge, A Rule of Property for Bengal is most important for its patient elaboration of how modes of knowledge, developed to account for European civil society, are modified in their intersection with the political exigencies of the colonizing project to become hegemonic for both the rulers and the native elites. --David Lloyd, University of California, Berkeley

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Ranajit Guha is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at the Research School of Paci&supl;c and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He is the founder-editor of Subaltern Studies.

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