Mukherjee, Mridula

Peasants in India's non-violent revolution: practice and theory/ Mridula Mukherjee - New Delhi: SAGE, 2004. - 577 p.

Peasant protest : the historical context --
Emergence of modern peasant organizations and fashioning a peasant agenda 1924-29 --
Marching with the nation : peasants and civil disobedience 1930-32 --
Consolidating peasant politics : national organization and ideological radicalization 1933-37 --
Peasant upsurge : reaching the high-water mark 1938-39 --
Anti-war, people's war and post-war : communists and peasants 1939-47 --
Peasant protest in a non-hegemonic state : the princely state of patiala 1930-53 --
Peasants and anti-colonial nationalism --
Peasants and non-violence : forms of protest and methods of mobilization --
Peasants and outsiders : social origins of leaders and participants --
Mapping peasant consciousness : elements of an alternative framework --
In conclusion : transforming peasant consciousness-practice versus theory.

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