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Informationen zum Autor Mridula Mukherjee is currently Professor of Modern Indian History and Chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Professor Mukherjee has been Visiting Scholar at Duke University, USA, and at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. She has also been Chairperson of the Archives on Contemporary History at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has published widely in the areas of agrarian history, peasant movements, social movements and the Indian national movement. Her publications include India's Struggle for Independence (1999) and India After Independence 1947-2000 (2000), both co-authored. Klappentext At a time when a majority of scholars engage in studies on class, religion, ethnicity and gender, this study forcefully demonstrates that peasants as a category and their problems continue to excite considerable academic debate. Divided into two parts, the book first reconstructs the political world of the peasants of Punjab and forms the empirical base on which rests the subsequent theoretical and methodological discussion. It captures their struggles at the national level as well as their everyday struggles on purely class or peasant issues. The second part makes important interventions in the theoretical debates regarding the role of peasants in revolutionary transformation in the modern world. The author argues that the automatic association of revolution with large-scale violence has resulted in the refusal to recognize the non-violent yet revolutionary political practice of peasants in the Indian National Movement. The author subjects to critical scrutiny a wide range of theoretical models and argues that the political practice of the Indian peasants cannot be fit into any theoretical straightjacket. The author has taken much care to document a detailed evaluation of the process of peasant radicalization through participation in national-level leadership…Mukherjee's study greatly enriches our understanding by questioning some long-accepted assumptions about the role of peasants in rural Punjab. Zusammenfassung Reconstructing the political world of the peasants of Punjab! this book captures their struggles at a national level! as well as at an individual one. It makes interventions in the theoretical debates regarding the role of peasants in revolutionary transformation in the modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editors' Preface Introduction PART ONE: POLITICal PRACTICE IN RURAL PUNJAB: THE 'HEROIC' AND THE 'EVERYDAY' Peasants Protest The Historical Context Emergence of Modern Peasant Organizations and Fashioning a Peasant Agenda, 1924-29 Marching with the Nation Peasants and Civil Disobedience, 1930-32 Consolidating Peasant Politics National Organization and Ideological Radicalization, 1933-37 Peasant Upsurge Reaching the High-Water Mark, 1938-39 Anit-War, People's War and Post-War Communists and Peasants, 1939-47 Peasant Protest in a Non-Hegemonic State The Princely State of Patiala, 1930-53 PART TWO: INTERROGATING PEASANT HISTORIOGRAPHY: PEASANT PERSPECTIVES, MARXIST PRACTICE AND SUBALTERN THEORY Peasants and Anti-Colonial Nationalism Peasants and Non-Violence Forms of Protest and Methods of Mobilization Peasants and Outsiders Social Origins of Leaders and Participants Mapping Peasant Consciousness Elements of an Alternative Framework In Conclusion Transforming Peasant Consciousness - Practice versus Theory Bibliography Index ...
