Event, Metaphor, Memory Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992

Name: Event, Metaphor, Memory Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992
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ISBN: 9780520087804

ISBN-10: 0520087801

ISBN-13: 9780520087804

Edition: 1997

Authors: Shahid Amin

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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. Appalled that his teachings were turned to violent ends, Gandhi called off his Noncooperation Movement and fasted to bring the people back to nonviolence. In the meantime, the British government denied that the riot reflected Indian resistance to its rule and tried the rioters as common criminals. These events have taken on great symbolic importance among Indians, both in the immediate region and nationally. Amin examines the event…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/26/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Shahid Amin is Professor of History at Delhi University. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford, Princeton, and Berlin. He has authored Sugarcane and Sugar in Gorakhpur (1984), as well as several seminal essays in Subaltern Studies--of which project he is one of the founding editors.



Prologue


Impressions



The Riot and History



A Narrative of the Event



Chauri Chaura-Dumri-Mundera



Fraudulent Reports



The Lessons of the Riot



The Crime of Chauri Chaura



Nationalizing the Riot



The Case for Punishment and Justice



Dwarka Gosain's Complaint



Violence and Counterinsurgency



The Making of the Approver



Shikari's Testimony



The Approver and the Accused



Judicial Discourse



The Alimentary Aspects of Picketing



The Politics of the Trial



Historian's Dilemma



Dumri Records



The Youthful Account



Komal-Dacoit



The Babu-saheb of Mundera



The Madanpur Narrative



Malaviya Saves Chotki Dumri



The Great Betrayal



A Powerful 'Mukhbir'



The One-Seven-Two of Chauri Chaura



The Policemen Dead



The Darogain



The Presence of Gandhi



Otiyars



Chutki, or the Gift of Grain



The Feast of 4 February 1922



The Colour Gerua and Proper Nationalist Attire



What the Otiyars Wore



Witness to a History



Towards Conclusion



Epilogue


Appendix A: Pratigya-Patr


Notes


Bibliography


Index