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| Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings History Congresses |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Walter Hauser; Walter Hauser |
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Hauser; William R Pinch; University of Virginia. Center for South Asian Studies. |
| ISBN: | 8173047464 9788173047466 |
| OCLC Number: | 212378851 |
| Description: | 504 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | From law to rights : the impact of the colonial state on peasant protest in Bihar / Peter Robb -- Power, agrarian structure, and peasant mobilization in modern India / Majid H. Siddiqi -- Gandhi, Marx, and Charan Singh : class and Gemeinschaft in peasant mobilization / Harold A. Gould -- Bhakti and the British Empire / William R. Pinch -- The raw and the simmered : environmental contexts of food and agrarian relations in the Gangetic Plain / James R. Hagen -- Of nature and nurture : sedentary agriculture and the "wandering tribes" of Jharkhand / Christopher V Hill -- Swami and friends : Sahajanand Saraswati and those who refuse to let the past of Bihar's peasant movements become history / Arvind Narayan Das -- The Reora Satyagraha (1939) : its contemporary relevance / Sho Kuwajima -- A stranger's view of Bihar : rethinking "religion" and "production" / Frederick H. Damon -- From "fanaticism" to power : the deep roots of Kerala's agrarian exceptionalism / Ronald J. Herring -- Cultures of resistance or commerce? : re-examining timber use in the Himalayan Punjab, 1850-1925 / Ruhi Grover -- Homeless in Gujarat and India : on the curious love of Indulal Yagnik / Ajay Skaria -- Competing inequalities : the scheduled tribes and the reservations system in Jharkhand / Stuart Corbridge -- Success and failure in rural development : Bihar, Bangladesh, and Maharashtra in the late 1980s / Harry Blair -- Bihar via "a virtual village" / Peter Gottschalk and Mathew N. Schmalz -- South Asian studies at Virginia / William R. Pinch, with the permission of Walter Hauser -- Bibliography of Walter Hauser / Philip McEldowney. |
| Responsibility: | edited by William R. Pinch. |
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Publisher’s jacket and information: Speaking of Peasants: Essays on Indian History and Politics in Honor of Walter Hauser edited by William R. Pinch (Manohar, 2008) [Photo of Walter Hauser] The present volume springs out of a festschrift conference to honor the career of Walter Hauser, professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia and pioneer scholar in the study of Indian peasant movements. Because Hauser's work focuses on Bihar and the peasant leader, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, some of the authors, such as the late Arvind Narayan Das, Christopher Hill, and Sho Kuwajima, are concerned directly with peasant politics in Bihar. Other authors, such as Harry Blair, Majid Siddiqi, Harold Gould, and the late James R. Hagen, contrast agrarian history and politics in Bihar to other parts of India. A third group, including Stuart Corbridge, Ron Herring, and Ruhi Grover, investigate related questions in agrarian history and politics from regions formally outside of Bihar. A fourth group of authors, including Peter Robb, Ajay Skaria, and William R. Pinch, examine culture, religion, and meaning that inform (and are informed by) peasant politics. A fifth set of authors, Frederick H. Damon, Peter Gottschalk, and Mathew Schmalz, provide ethnographic context. Damon takes readers from Bihar to Melanesia and many points in between, with a focus on ethno-botany over three millennia; Gottschalk and Schmalz provide a closely detailed examination of a Bihari village, focusing in particular on the problem of religion. Importantly, these authors structure their investigations around a reversal of the ethnographer's 'gaze'. In this spirit of reflexive reversal, the volume concludes with a reflection on the 'project' of South Asian studies in the United States by Hauser himself, focusing on (but not limited to) his experiences at the University of Virginia. [Editor of this book] William R. (Vijay) Pinch is Professor of History at Wesleyan University and the author of Peasants and Monks in British India (1996) and Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires (2006). Photograph of Walter Hauser on the front flap is by F. J. Hauser. Jacket design: MAX ISBN 81-7304-746-4 Rs. 1195 Books by Walter Hauser from Manohar WALTER HAUSER (ED) Sahajanand on Agricultural Labour and the Rural Poor Swami Sahajanand and the Peasants of Jharkhand: A View From 1941 [Submitted February 2008]
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