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

By: Chaturvedi, VinayakMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007Description: xvii, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780520250789Subject(s): Nationalism--HistoriographyDDC classification: 305.56309547

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	305.56309547 CHA/P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P10803

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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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