Event, Metaphor, Memory
Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992
1st Edition
Published on 26. October 1995
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-0-520-08779-8 (ISBN)
Description
Taking Gandhi's statements about civil disobedience to heart, in February 1922 residents from villages around the north Indian market town of Chauri Chaura attacked the local police station, murdering 23 police constables. Appalled that his teachings were turned to violent ends, Gandhi called off his Non-cooperation Movement and fasted to bring the people back to non-violence. 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 took on great symbolic importance among Indians and this book examines the way in which the event has been remembered, interpreted and used as a metaphor for the Indian struggle for independence.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08779-8 (9780520087798)
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Person
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.
Content
Prologue
Part One
Impressions
1 The Riot and History
2 A Narrative of the Event
Part Two
3 Chauri Chaura-Dumri-Mundera
Part Three
4 Fraudulent Reports
5 The Lessons of the Riot
6 The Crime of Chauri Chaura
7 Nationalizing the Riot
8 The Case for Punishment and Justice
9 Dwarka Gosain's Complaint
Part Four
10 Violence and Counterinsurgency
11 The Making of the Approver
12 Shikari' s Testimony
13 The Approver and the Accused
14 Judicial Discourse
15 The Alimentary Aspects of Picketing
16 The Politics of the Trial
Part Five
17 Historian's Dilemma
18 Dumri Records
19 The Youthful Account
20 Komal-Dacoit
21 The Babu-saheb of Mundera
22 The Madanpur Narrative
23 Malaviya Saves Chotki Dumri
24 The Great Betrayal
25 A Powerful 'Mukhbir'
26 The One-Seven-Two of Chauri Chaura
27 The Policemen Dead
28 The Darogain
29 The Presence of Gandhi
30 Otiyars
31 Chutki, or the Gift of Grain
32 The Feast of 4 February 1922
33 The Colour Gerua and Proper Nationalist Attire
34 What the Otiyars Wore
35 Witness to a History
36 Towards Conclusion
37 Epilogue
Appendix A: Pratigya-Patr
Notes
Abbreviations
Notes to Prologue
Notes to Part One
Notes to Part Two
Notes to Part Three
Notes to Part Four
Notes to Part Five
Bibliography
Index
Part One
Impressions
1 The Riot and History
2 A Narrative of the Event
Part Two
3 Chauri Chaura-Dumri-Mundera
Part Three
4 Fraudulent Reports
5 The Lessons of the Riot
6 The Crime of Chauri Chaura
7 Nationalizing the Riot
8 The Case for Punishment and Justice
9 Dwarka Gosain's Complaint
Part Four
10 Violence and Counterinsurgency
11 The Making of the Approver
12 Shikari' s Testimony
13 The Approver and the Accused
14 Judicial Discourse
15 The Alimentary Aspects of Picketing
16 The Politics of the Trial
Part Five
17 Historian's Dilemma
18 Dumri Records
19 The Youthful Account
20 Komal-Dacoit
21 The Babu-saheb of Mundera
22 The Madanpur Narrative
23 Malaviya Saves Chotki Dumri
24 The Great Betrayal
25 A Powerful 'Mukhbir'
26 The One-Seven-Two of Chauri Chaura
27 The Policemen Dead
28 The Darogain
29 The Presence of Gandhi
30 Otiyars
31 Chutki, or the Gift of Grain
32 The Feast of 4 February 1922
33 The Colour Gerua and Proper Nationalist Attire
34 What the Otiyars Wore
35 Witness to a History
36 Towards Conclusion
37 Epilogue
Appendix A: Pratigya-Patr
Notes
Abbreviations
Notes to Prologue
Notes to Part One
Notes to Part Two
Notes to Part Three
Notes to Part Four
Notes to Part Five
Bibliography
Index