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Peasant pasts : history and memory in western India
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Peasant pasts : history and memory in western India

Author: Vinayak Chaturvedi
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Vinayak Chaturvedi
ISBN: 9780520250765 0520250761 9780520250789 0520250788
OCLC Number: 70866984
Description: xvii, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Vinayak Chaturvedi.
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