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UNINA9910457746603321 |
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Autore |
Chaturvedi Vinayak |
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Peasant pasts [[electronic resource] ] : history and memory in western India / / Vinayak Chaturvedi |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007 |
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0-520-94059-8 |
1-282-77216-3 |
9786612772160 |
1-4337-0857-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (331 p.) |
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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 |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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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 |
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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 little told story is necessary to understand not only anticolonial nationalism but the direction of postcolonial nationalism as well. |
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UNINA9910809934403321 |
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Autore |
Jay Jacqueline E. |
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Orality and literacy in the Demotic tales / / by Jacqueline E. Jay |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (373 pages) |
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Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, , 1566-2055 ; ; Volume 81 |
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Egyptian language |
Egyptian language - Demotic, ca. 650 B.C.-450 A.D |
Tales - Egypt |
Oral tradition - Egypt |
Egyptian literature - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Orality, Literacy, and the Development of Egyptian Narrative Literature -- 2 Going Deeper: The Evidence for Orality -- 3 The Inaros Cycle and the Egyptian “Homeric Question” -- 4 Other Demotic Narratives -- 5 Egyptian Literature and the Greek Novel -- Conclusion -- Index of Passages -- General Index. |
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In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales , Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it. The monograph’s |
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main focus is the intersection of orality and literacy in the extremely rich corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period. The many texts discussed include the tales of the Inaros and Setna Cycles, the Myth of the Sun’s Eye , and the Dream of Nectanebo . Jacqueline Jay examines these Demotic tales not only in conjunction with earlier Egyptian literature, but also with the worldwide tradition of orally composed and performed discourse. |
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