Event, Metaphor, Memory - Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992

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List of contents

Prologue

Part One
Impressions
1 The Riot and History
2 A Narrative of the Event

Part Two
3 Chauri Chaura-Dumri-Mundera

Part Three
4 Fraudulent Reports
5 The Lessons of the Riot
6 The Crime of Chauri Chaura
7 Nationalizing the Riot
8 The Case for Punishment and Justice
9 Dwarka Gosain's Complaint

Part Four
10 Violence and Counterinsurgency
11 The Making of the Approver
12 Shikari' s Testimony
13 The Approver and the Accused
14 Judicial Discourse
15 The Alimentary Aspects of Picketing
16 The Politics of the Trial

Part Five
17 Historian's Dilemma
18 Dumri Records
19 The Youthful Account
20 Komal-Dacoit
21 The Babu-saheb of Mundera
22 The Madanpur Narrative
23 Malaviya Saves Chotki Dumri
24 The Great Betrayal
25 A Powerful 'Mukhbir'
26 The One-Seven-Two of Chauri Chaura
27 The Policemen Dead
28 The Darogain
29 The Presence of Gandhi
30 Otiyars
31 Chutki, or the Gift of Grain
32 The Feast of 4 February 1922
33 The Colour Gerua and Proper Nationalist Attire
34 What the Otiyars Wore
35 Witness to a History
36 Towards Conclusion
37 Epilogue
Appendix A: Pratigya-Patr

Notes
Abbreviations
Notes to Prologue
Notes to Part One
Notes to Part Two
Notes to Part Three
Notes to Part Four
Notes to Part Five
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Shahid Amin is Professor of History at Delhi University. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford, Princeton, and Berlin. He has authored Sugarcane and Sugar in Gorakhpur (1984), as well as several seminal essays in Subaltern Studies—of which project he is one of the founding editors.

Summary

Taking Gandhi's statements about civil disobedience to heart, in February 1922 residents from the villages around the north Indian market town of Chauri Chaura attacked the local police station. This title explores the ways it has been remembered, interpreted, and used as a metaphor for the Indian struggle for independence.

Product details

• Authors: Shahid Amin, Amin Shahid
• Assisted by: Shahid Amin (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.1995
• EAN: 9780520087804
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08780-4
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, India, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Asian History, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Demonstrations & protest movements, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Asia / South / India