ISBN:
0520250761
,
9780520250765
,
0520250788
,
9780520250789
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 307 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Peasant Pasts : History and Memory in Western India
DDC:
305.5/6309547
Keywords:
Dharalas History 20th century
;
Historiography
;
Dharalas History 19th century
;
Historiography
;
Nationalism Historiography
;
Dharalas Social conditions 20th century
;
Dharalas Political activity
;
Dharalas Social conditions 19th century
;
Nationalism - India - Gujarat - Historiography
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
19. Ranchod's Testimony20. 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
Description / Table of Contents:
42. Nationalizing Dharala Raids43. 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; 57. Local Knowledge; 58. Hidden Histories; 59. Erasing the Past; 60. Narsiram; 61. Seeing Daduram; 62. Dayaram; 63. Narsi Bhagat; 64. History without Ends; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Glossary
Description / Table of Contents:
BibliographyIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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