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.
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.