| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome. |
| Description |
data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dharalas -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.
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Dharalas. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Historiography. |
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Dharalas -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Dharalas -- Political activity.
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Dharalas -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Dharalas -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Nationalism -- India -- Gujarat -- Historiography.
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Nationalism. |
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India -- Gujarat. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Political participation. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General. |
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Nationalism -- Historiography. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Peasant pasts Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520250765 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2006025558 |
| ISBN |
9780520940598 ebook |
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0520940598 |
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9780520250765 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520250761 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520250789 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520250788 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781429481847 (electronic book) |
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1429481846 (electronic book) |
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1433708574 (electronic book) |
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9781433708572 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
X8122393 |
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