Subjugated nomads: the Lambadas under the rule of the Nizams/
Bhangya Bhukya
- New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010.
- xxiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Warwick). Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-283) and index.
1. The Twilight World of the Caravan: Regulated Market Economy and the Caravanners A Brief History of the Lambada Caravanners; Fragmented Politics, Rivalries and Caravan Trade; Organisation of the Thanda and Caravan Trade; Regulated Market and Marginalisation of the Lambada Caravan; Impact of Technology on the Caravans.
2. Policing Cattle, Policing Nomads: Colonial Rationality and Cowherds The Lambadas' Passion for Cattle; Cattle as an Economic Resource; Policing Cattle; Cattle Diseases and the Governance of Health.
3. 'Delinquent Subjects': Dacoity and the Creation of a Surveillance Society The Colonial Construction of Lambada Criminality; Towards Dacoity; Policing Criminal Gangs; Criminal Settlements.
4. Modem Forms of Land Relations: Exploitation and Revolt Becoming Peasants; Modem Forms of Land Relations; The Commoditisation of Agricultural Produce; The Marginalisation of the Lambada Peasantry; The Lambadas' Land Revolt.
5. Articulating Cultural Differences, Contesting Power: The Consolidation of the Lambadas as a Social and Political Entity The Genealogy of the Lambadas' Spiritual Culture; Technologies of Self and Cultural Assertion; From Religious Reform to Identity Politics.
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