Peasants in India's Non-Violent Revolution

Practice and Theory
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9686-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 966 g

Reihe: SAGE Series in Modern Indian History

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 of the peasants of Punjab and forms the empirical base on which rests the subsequent theoretical and methodological discussion. It captures their struggles at the national level as well as their everyday struggles on purely class or peasant issues.

The second part makes important interventions in the theoretical debates regarding the role of peasants in revolutionary transformation in the modern world. The author argues that the automatic association of revolution with large-scale violence has resulted in the refusal to recognize the non-violent yet revolutionary political practice of peasants in the Indian National Movement. The author subjects to critical scrutiny a wide range of theoretical models and argues that the political practice of the Indian peasants cannot be fit into any theoretical straightjacket.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherjee, Mridula

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors’ Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: POLITICal PRACTICE IN RURAL PUNJAB: THE 'HEROIC' AND THE 'EVERYDAY'
Peasants 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
Anit-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
PART TWO: INTERROGATING PEASANT HISTORIOGRAPHY: PEASANT PERSPECTIVES, MARXIST PRACTICE AND SUBALTERN THEORY
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
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mukherjee, Mridula
Mridula Mukherjee is currently Professor of Modern Indian History and Chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Professor Mukherjee has been Visiting Scholar at Duke University, USA, and at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. She has also been Chairperson of the Archives on Contemporary History at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has published widely in the areas of agrarian history, peasant movements, social movements and the Indian national movement. Her publications include India’s Struggle for Independence (1999) and India After Independence 1947–2000 (2000), both co-authored.