Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance

Princes, Peasants and Paramount Power
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9230-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Gewicht: 446 g

The historiography of colonialism in India has, by and large, ignored princely India and instead, the inferences drawn from British India are generally applied to the whole of the country. This book makes a strong case for an agrarian history of India that will give due place to princely India. In the process, the author refutes the established theories of imperialist and nationalist historians, dependency theorists, theorists of the colonial mode of production and subaltern studies.

Based on considerable archival research and the author's personal acquaintance with the region and its people, this important book provides an alternative to existing approaches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Hira

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Social Change in Colonial Societies Abstract Paradigms and Concrete Histories Thikanedars The Landlords Kisans The Peasants Peasant Movements Action from Below The Landlords' Response Reaction from Above Paramount Power, Princes and Peasants The Dialectics of Colonialism Agency of Peasant Movements The Reality and the Discourse

Über Autor(innen)

Singh, Hira
Hira Singh teaches Sociology at York University, Toronto. He taught Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He also taught Sociology at various other universities in Canada like Wilfrid Laurier, Victoria and University of New Brunswick. A participant of the debate on ‘Feudalism in Pre-colonial, Non-European Societies’, sponsored by the Journal of Peasant Studies, his previous publications include Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance: Princes, Peasants, and Paramount Power and essays in prominent journals.