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Peasant pasts : history and memory in western India / / Vinayak Chaturvedi



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Autore: Chaturvedi Vinayak Visualizza persona
Titolo: Peasant pasts : history and memory in western India / / Vinayak Chaturvedi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
Disciplina: 305.5/6309547
Soggetto topico: 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: 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 little told story is necessary to understand not only anticolonial nationalism but the direction of postcolonial nationalism as well.
Titolo autorizzato: Peasant pasts  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-94059-8
1-282-77216-3
9786612772160
1-4337-0857-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824566003321
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