Product Description: Subaltern Studies IX carries forward the Subaltern agenda of searching for the voices and agency of the subaltern, enlarging the focus to include contemporary issues of gender, oppression, and lumpenization in metropolitan modern India.

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Product Description: Subaltern Studies IX carries forward the Subaltern agenda of searching for the voices and agency of the subaltern, enlarging the focus to include contemporary issues of gender, oppression, and lumpenization in metropolitan modern India. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Taking Gandhi's statements about civil disobedience to heart, in February 1922 residents from the villages around the north Indian market town of Chauri Chaura attacked the local police station, burned it to the ground and murdered twenty-three constables...read more

Product Description: 100 years ago William Crooke, a pioneer colonial ethnographer and historian with the Indian Civil Service, compiled but never published this glossary, a manuscript of which was recently discovered in London by the editor. Exploring all aspects of North Indian peasant life, including agricultural implements and operations, domestic utensils and animals, irrigation, soils, insect pests, labor advances and wages, the native house, weights and measures, food, ceremonies, trade, and land tenures, this comprehensive glossary provides, in over 800 numbered paragraphs, detailed definitions of all known terms associated with rural life in the area...read more