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University of California Press
- Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India
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- 2007
- Published by: University of California Press
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Peasant Pasts is an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to writing histories of peasant politics, nationalism, and colonialism. Vinayak Chaturvedi's analysis provides an important intervention in the social and cultural history of India by examining the nature of peasant discourses and practices during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through rigorous archival study and fieldwork, Chaturvedi shows that peasants in Gujarat were active in the production and circulation of political ideas, establishing critiques of the state and society while promoting complex understandings of political community. By turning to the heartland of M.K. Gandhi's support, Chaturvedi shows that the vast majority of peasants were opposed to nationalism in the early decades of the twentieth century. He argues that nationalists in Gujarat established power through the use of coercion and violence, as they imagined a nation in which they could dominate social relations. Chaturvedi suggests that this littletold story is necessary to understand not only anticolonial nationalism but the direction of postcolonial nationalism as well.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-22
- 1. Ranchod
- pp. 25-27
- 2. The Bhagat and the Miracle
- pp. 28-29
- 3. Dharala/Koli/Swordsman
- pp. 30-33
- 4. The Patidars and the Kanbis
- pp. 34-38
- 5. Becoming a Colonial Emissary
- pp. 39-43
- 6. The Mukhi and the Fouzdar
- pp. 44-45
- 7. Monitoring Peasants
- pp. 46-47
- 8. Prophesy Unfulfilled
- pp. 48-49
- 10. The Dakore Pilgrimage
- pp. 52-54
- 11. The King’s Procession
- pp. 55-57
- 12. Ranchod’s Letter
- pp. 58-61
- 13. The Book Collection
- pp. 62-63
- 15. The Practice of Cutting Trees
- pp. 67-68
- 16. Official Battle Narratives
- pp. 69-71
- 17. Dharala Battle Narratives
- pp. 72-74
- 18. The Arrests
- pp. 75-76
- 19. Ranchod’s Testimony
- pp. 77-78
- 20. The Kingship
- pp. 79-83
- 21. Friends and Enemies of the King
- pp. 84-86
- 22. Symbols of Legitimacy
- pp. 87-90
- 23. Oral Culture and Written Culture
- pp. 91-93
- 24. The Criminal Case
- pp. 94-97
- 25. The Aftermath
- pp. 98-121
- 26. Politics Continued
- pp. 101-102
- 27. Age of Darkness
- pp. 103-105
- 28. Daduram
- pp. 106-108
- 29. Surveillance
- pp. 109-110
- 30. The Politics of Food
- pp. 111-113
- 31. “The Dignity of Labor”
- pp. 114-115
- 32. The Baraiya Conference Movement
- pp. 116-117
- 33. Contesting Nationalism
- pp. 118-141
- 34. Peasant Freedom
- pp. 119-142
- 35. Police Reorganization
- pp. 120-121
- 36. The Criminal Tribes Act
- pp. 122-126
- 37. Underground Activities
- pp. 127-150
- 38. “My Land Campaign”
- pp. 128-129
- 39. The Labor Strike
- pp. 130-131
- 40. The Kheda Satyagraha
- pp. 132-135
- 41. Strikes and Raids
- pp. 136-139
- 42. Nationalizing Dharala Raids
- pp. 140-141
- 43. A Second “No-Revenue Campaign”
- pp. 142-143
- 44. Deporting Dharalas
- pp. 144-145
- 45. The Punitive Police Tax
- pp. 146-147
- 46. “To Forget Past Enmities”
- pp. 148-150
- 47. Ravishankar Vyas
- pp. 151-152
- 48. The Last “No-Revenue Campaign”
- pp. 153-155
- 49. The Coming of the Postcolonial
- pp. 156-157
- 50. Becoming Indian
- pp. 158-160
- Part Three
- pp. 161-162
- 51. Small Discoveries
- pp. 163-168
- 52. Chaklasi
- pp. 169-171
- 53. Daduram’s Legacies
- pp. 172-183
- 54. Returning to Kheda
- pp. 184-185
- 55. Kalasinh Durbar
- pp. 186-188
- 56. Raghupura
- pp. 189-192
- 57. Local Knowledge
- pp. 193-197
- 58. Hidden Histories
- pp. 198-200
- 59. Erasing the Past
- pp. 201-202
- 60. Narsiram
- pp. 203-206
- 61. Seeing Daduram
- pp. 207-211
- 62. Dayaram
- pp. 212-217
- 63. Narsi Bhagat
- pp. 218-223
- 64. History without Ends
- pp. 224-226
- Conclusion
- pp. 227-232
- Abbreviations
- pp. 233-234
- Bibliography
- pp. 283-300
- Production Notes
- p. 331
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520940598
Related ISBN(s)
9780520250789
MARC Record
OCLC
166267063
Pages
329
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No