 The term derives from studies of modalities of resistance by the Subaltern Studies school, but reflects concerns pervasive from the earliest days of post- and anti-colonial writing.Ranajit Guha refers to inversion as one of the modalities of peasant revolt in colonial India, noting practices such as forcing landlords to carry peasants on Sedan chairs.Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" (1961) provides an extensive discussion and partial advocacy of inversion in a social context defined by strong binaries.