Peasant Pasts by Vinayak Chaturvedi

Peasant Pasts by Vinayak Chaturvedi

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Provides an intervention in the social and cultural history of India by examining the nature of peasant discourses and practices during the 19th and 20th centuries. This book shows that peasants in Gujarat were active in production and circulation of political ideas. It argues that nationalists in Gujarat established power through use of coercion.

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Peasant Pasts by Vinayak Chaturvedi

Provides an intervention in the social and cultural history of India by examining the nature of peasant discourses and practices during the 19th and 20th centuries. This book shows that peasants in Gujarat were active in production and circulation of political ideas. It argues that nationalists in Gujarat established power through use of coercion.
Vinayak Chaturvedi is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine, and editor of Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial.
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ISBN 13 9780520250789
ISBN 10 0520250788
Title Peasant Pasts
Author Vinayak Chaturvedi
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 2007-06-19
Number of pages 329
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.