Chaturvedi Vinayak:
Peasant Pasts
History And Memory In Western India
University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2007
Paperback, 329 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780520250789
ISBN-10: 0520250788
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Peasant Pasts
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.

