Peasants in India's non-violent revolution practice and theory

At a time when a majority of scholars engage in studies on class, religion, ethnicity and gender, this study forcefully demonstrates that peasants as a category and their problems continue to excite considerable academic debate. Divided into two parts, the book first reconstructs the political world...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mukherjee, Mridula (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications c2004.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Sage series in modern Indian history ; 5.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31439597*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.