ভাবের ঝোঁকে দেখতেছিলেম স্বপ্ন চমৎকার
কোমর বেঁধে ভাবুক জগৎ ভবের পগার পার।

Ranajit Guha's founding of Subaltern Studies effected one of the most significant paradigm shifts in twentieth-century historiography, turning historical inquiry away from the state and its elites toward the consciousness and agency of those whom power had rendered voiceless. Yet Guha's career resists reduction to a single founding gesture. Across six decades, his thought moved from rigorous archival analysis of agrarian economy and peasant insurgency, drawing on Marx, Mao, and Gramsci, to profound philosophical meditation on time, memory, and the limits of historical knowledge itself. In his later work, he turned toward the phenomenological and the everyday, toward literature and aesthetics, questioning the disciplinary boundaries that separate history from philosophy and poetry. His achievement lies in his insistence that to understand history, we must listen to those whom power has silenced, and that to listen truly, we must fundamentally reimagine what history itself can be.

   In recent years there have been significant attempts, in both English and Bengali, to compile and reflect on the full range of his works beyond the Subaltern Studies project. This volume continues and deepens that effort. Its origins lie in a centenary conference organized in December 2022 by Bhabuk Sabha at Presidency University (formerly Presidency College), Kolkata, Guha's own alma mater, which brought together leading scholars to engage with the full arc of his thought.

   Edited by Sourav Chattopadhyay, this bilingual collection assembles materials that have remained scattered or inaccessible: two major unpublished works, including an early outline of agrarian economic history; uncollected essays; journalism from the 1940s; an interview; personal correspondences. It publishes, for the first time in accessible form, select papers from the Bhabuk Sabha symposium, alongside memories and obituaries from colleagues and collaborators across the world, and critical engagements with Guha's final six Bengali books.