TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chaturvedi, Vinayak
TI  - Pleasant pasts: history and memory in western India
SN  - 9780520250789
U1  - 305.56309547 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Nationalism--Historiography
N1  - Ranchod --
The Bhagat and the miracle --
Dharala/Koli/ Swordsman --
The Patidars and the Kanbis --
Becoming a colonial emissary --
The Mukhi and the Fouzdar --
Monitoring peasants --
Prophesy unfulfilled --
Defeating the plague, controlling Dharalas --
The Dakore pilgrimage --
The king's procession --
Ranchod's letter --
The book collection --
Kashi Patra: a circulating letter --
The practice of cutting trees --
Official battle narratives --
Dharala battle narratives --
The arrests --
Ranchod's testimony --
The kingship --
Friends and enemies of the king --
Symbols of legitimacy --
Oral culture and written culture --
The criminal case --
The aftermath --
Politics continued --
Age of darkness --
Daduram --
Surveillance --
The politics of food --
"The dignity of labor" --
The Baraiya conference movement --
Contesting nationalism --
Peasant freedom --
Police reorganization --
The criminal tribes act --
Underground activities --
"My land campaign" --
The labor strike --
The Kheda Satyagraha --
Strikes and raids --
Nationalizing Dharala raids --
A second "no-revenue Campaign" --
Deporting dharalas --
The punitive police tax --
"To forget past enmities" --
Ravishankar Vyas --
The last "no-revenue campaign" --
The coming of the postcolonial --
Becoming Indian --
Small discoveries --
Chaklasi --
Daduram's legacies --
Returning to Kheda --
Kalasinh Durbar --
Raghupura --
Local knowledge --
Hidden histories --
Erasing the past --
Narsiram --
Seeing Daduram --
Dayaram --
Narsi bhagat --
History without ends
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