Creating histories : oral narratives and the politics of history-making / Wendy Singer
- Bib ID:
- 1898105
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Singer, Wendy
- Description:
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- Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1997
- xviii, 339 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 019563988X
- Full contents:
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- An Introduction: The Power of Oral Narratives
- Pt. I. Politics and Communication. 1. Movement Politics: Organizing Local Conflict. 2. Beyond Caste and Class. 3. Sources of History-making: Communication
- Pt. II. Making Historical Narratives. 4. The Maharaja Who Would Be King. 5. The Power of Written Record (1885-1939). 6. Colonial Officers as Authors and Authorities in Darbhanga (1896-1936). 7. The Court of Rama Kant Jha: Village Mediators and Local Power. 8. Orality as Politics: Narratives and Songs of Resistance (1930-1939)
- Pt. III. Rhetoric and Revolution. 9. Telling Revolution, 1929-1942: Khadi and Land Rights. 10. Escalating Crises: Peasant Protests and the 1942 Revolt
- Conclusion Part III: Responding to the Image of Simmering Revolution
- Conclusion: Orality, Literacy, and Contemporary Politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-324) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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