03682nam 2200757Ia 450 991082456600332120200520144314.00-520-94059-81-282-77216-397866127721601-4337-0857-410.1525/9780520940598(CKB)1000000000354332(EBL)301114(OCoLC)614493207(SSID)ssj0000219193(PQKBManifestationID)11185209(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219193(PQKBWorkID)10227766(PQKB)10769154(MiAaPQ)EBC301114(OCoLC)166267063(MdBmJHUP)muse30530(DE-B1597)520069(DE-B1597)9780520940598(Au-PeEL)EBL301114(CaPaEBR)ebr10178201(CaONFJC)MIL277216(EXLCZ)99100000000035433220060803d2007 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrPeasant pasts history and memory in western India /Vinayak Chaturvedi1st ed.Berkeley University of California Press20071 online resource (331 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25076-1 0-520-25078-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ILLUSTRATIONS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INTRODUCTION --PART ONE --PART TWO --PART THREE --CONCLUSION --ABBREVIATIONS --NOTES --GLOSSARY --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXPeasant 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 little told story is necessary to understand not only anticolonial nationalism but the direction of postcolonial nationalism as well.DharalasHistory19th centuryHistoriographyDharalasHistory20th centuryHistoriographyDharalasPolitical activityDharalasSocial conditions19th centuryDharalasSocial conditions20th centuryNationalismIndiaGujaratHistoriographyDharalasHistoryHistoriography.DharalasHistoryHistoriography.DharalasPolitical activity.DharalasSocial conditionsDharalasSocial conditionsNationalismHistoriography.305.5/6309547Chaturvedi Vinayak1682487MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824566003321Peasant pasts4052651UNINA