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Peasant pasts : history and memory in western India /Vinayak Chaturvedi

By: Vinayak ChaturvediContributor(s): Vinayak ChaturvediMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press , ©2007Description: xvii, 307 pages ;24 cmISBN: 9780520250789Subject(s): Social sciencesGenre/Form: Nationalism--HistoriographyDDC classification: 305.5630 CHA

Contents:

Ranchod -- The Bhagat and the miracle -- Dharala/Koli/ Swordsman -- The Patidars and the Kanbis -- Becoming a colonial emissary -- The Mukhi and the Fouzdar -- Monitoring peasants -- Prophesy unfulfilled -- Defeating the plague, controlling Dharalas -- The Dakore pilgrimage -- The king's procession -- Ranchod's letter -- The book collection -- Kashi Patra: a circulating letter -- The practice of cutting trees -- Official battle narratives -- Dharala battle narratives -- The arrests -- Ranchod's testimony -- The kingship -- Friends and enemies of the king -- Symbols of legitimacy -- Oral culture and written culture -- The criminal case -- The aftermath -- Politics continued -- Age of darkness -- Daduram -- Surveillance -- The politics of food -- "The dignity of labor" -- The Baraiya conference movement -- Contesting nationalism -- Peasant freedom -- Police reorganization -- The criminal tribes act -- Underground activities -- "My land campaign" -- The labor strike -- The Kheda Satyagraha -- Strikes and raids -- Nationalizing Dharala raids -- A second "no-revenue Campaign" -- Deporting dharalas -- The punitive police tax -- "To forget past enmities" -- Ravishankar Vyas -- The last "no-revenue campaign" -- The coming of the postcolonial -- Becoming Indian -- Small discoveries -- Chaklasi -- Daduram's legacies -- Returning to Kheda -- Kalasinh Durbar -- Raghupura -- Local knowledge -- Hidden histories -- Erasing the past -- Narsiram -- Seeing Daduram -- Dayaram -- Narsi bhagat -- History without ends.

Summary: 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.

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Ranchod --
The Bhagat and the miracle --
Dharala/Koli/ Swordsman --
The Patidars and the Kanbis --
Becoming a colonial emissary --
The Mukhi and the Fouzdar --
Monitoring peasants --
Prophesy unfulfilled --
Defeating the plague, controlling Dharalas --
The Dakore pilgrimage --
The king's procession --
Ranchod's letter --
The book collection --
Kashi Patra: a circulating letter --
The practice of cutting trees --
Official battle narratives --
Dharala battle narratives --
The arrests --
Ranchod's testimony --
The kingship --
Friends and enemies of the king --
Symbols of legitimacy --
Oral culture and written culture --
The criminal case --
The aftermath --
Politics continued --
Age of darkness --
Daduram --
Surveillance --
The politics of food --
"The dignity of labor" --
The Baraiya conference movement --
Contesting nationalism --
Peasant freedom --
Police reorganization --
The criminal tribes act --
Underground activities --
"My land campaign" --
The labor strike --
The Kheda Satyagraha --
Strikes and raids --
Nationalizing Dharala raids --
A second "no-revenue Campaign" --
Deporting dharalas --
The punitive police tax --
"To forget past enmities" --
Ravishankar Vyas --
The last "no-revenue campaign" --
The coming of the postcolonial --
Becoming Indian --
Small discoveries --
Chaklasi --
Daduram's legacies --
Returning to Kheda --
Kalasinh Durbar --
Raghupura --
Local knowledge --
Hidden histories --
Erasing the past --
Narsiram --
Seeing Daduram --
Dayaram --
Narsi bhagat --
History without ends.

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.

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