Peasant Pasts - History and Memory in Western India

Informationen zum Autor Vinayak Chaturvedi is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California! Irvine! and editor of Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. Klappentext "This book offers an imaginatively conceived new model of combining structural analysis! meticulous social history! and fine-grained attention to the dynamic unfolding of political narratives. Anyone interested in the dialectics of state formation and peasant resistance! whether in early modern and nineteenth-century Europe! South and Southeast Asia! or the Caribbean and Latin America! will find it richly illuminating."-Geoff Eley! author of A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society " Peasant Pasts bridges the supposedly unbridgeable gap between social history and postcolonial studies to provide a nuanced and highly readable account of peasant movements in colonial western India. It draws upon colonial archives! oral narrative accounts! and a whole host of other resources. Historians of not only India! but peasant political movements elsewhere in the 'Third World' will read it with pleasure and profit."-Sanjay Subrahmanyam! author of Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges "Where there is of course a considerable and rich South Asian tradition of history from below! and while the importance of studying peasant religion has been repeatedly stressed in the last two decades! there is simply no equivalent to the kind of work that Chaturvedi has attempted here."-Ajay Skaria! author of Hybrid Histories: Forests! Frontiers and Wildness in Western India Zusammenfassung Provides an intervention in the social and cultural history of India by examining the nature of peasant discourses and practices during the 19th and 20th centuries. This book shows that peasants in Gujarat were active in production and circulation of political ideas. It argues that nationalists in Gujarat established power through use of coercion. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Maps Introduction PART ONE 1. Ranchod 2. The Bhagat and the Miracle 3. Dharala/Koli/Swordsman 4. The Patidars and the Kanbis 5. Becoming a Colonial Emissary 6. The Mukhi and the Fouzdar 7. Monitoring Peasants 8. Prophesy Unfulfilled 9. Defeating the Plague! Controlling Dharalas 10. The Dakore Pilgrimage 11. The King's Procession 12. Ranchod's Letter 13. The Book Collection 14. Kashi Patra: A Circulating Letter 15. The Practice of Cutting Trees 16. Official Battle Narratives 17. Dharala Battle Narratives 18. The Arrests 19. Ranchod's Testimony 20. The Kingship 21. Friends and Enemies of the King 22. Symbols of Legitimacy 23. Oral Culture and Written Culture 24. The Criminal Case 25. The Aftermath PART TWO 26. Politics Continued 27. Age of Darkness 28. Daduram 29. Surveillance 30. The Politics of Food 31. "The Dignity of Labor" 32. The Baraiya Conference Movement 33. Contesting Nationalism 34. Peasant Freedom 35. Police Reorganization 36. The Criminal Tribes Act 37. Underground Activities 38. "My Land Campaign" 39. The Labor Strike 40. The Kheda Satyagraha 41. Strikes and Raids 42. Nationalizing Dharala Raids 43. A Second "No-Revenue Campaign" 44. Deporting Dharalas 45. The Punitive Police Tax 46. "To Forget Past Enmities" 47. Ravishankar Vyas 48. The Last "No-Revenue Campaign" 49. The Coming of the Postcolonial 50. Becoming Indian PART THREE 51. Small Discoveries 52. Chaklasi 53. Daduram's Legacies 54. Returning to Kheda 55. Kalasinh Durbar 56. Raghupura

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• Authors: Vinayak Chaturvedi, Chaturvedi Vinayak
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2007
• EAN: 9780520250789
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25078-9
• No. of pages: 329
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India