Download or read book Contesting Colonial Hegemony written by Dagmar Engels and published by British Academic Press. This book was released on 1994-03-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . The contributors are distinguished scholars from Europe, the USA and India, who have written extensively on the social history of India and Africa. Through their essays they illustrate the strengths and limitations of applying the idea of hegemony to the colonial state and its subjects.