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Author Chaturvedi, Vinayak

Title Peasant pasts : history and memory in western India / Vinayak Chaturvedi
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index
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Subject Dharalas -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography
Dharalas -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
Dharalas -- Political activity
Dharalas -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Dharalas -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Nationalism -- India -- Gujarat -- Historiography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Nationalism -- Historiography
India -- Gujarat
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696830
ISBN 9780520940598
0520940598
9781429481847
1429481846
1433708574
9781433708572