Against history, against state: counterperspectives from the margins/
Mayaram, Shail
Against history, against state: counterperspectives from the margins/ Shail Mayaram - New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. - xxii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - (Cultures of history) .
Orality and Writing --
Myth and History --
State Formation --
Marginality and Resistance --
The Making of Meo Marginality --
Religion and Identity --
The Meo Oral Tradition --
Antistate: The Pal Polity --
The Palon ki Bansabali, or the "Genealogy" of the Pals --
Decentering Power: The Pal Polity --
Genealogy, Memory, and Community --
Toward a Critique of Indo-Persian Historiography --
Mewati Otherness in Indo-Persian Historiographical Texts --
Imperial State Formation and Resistance --
State Formation: The Mughal Empire --
State Formation: The Rajput Kingdom --
The Persian Administrative Discourse --
Panch Pahar ki larai: An Anti-Imperial Narrative --
The Construction of Meo Criminality: Toward a Critique of Colonial Ethnography --
On Criminality --
On Colonial Ethnography --
The Ethnographic Construction of Meo Criminality --
The Evidence of Meo Criminality --
The Mewati Narrative of Dariya Khan --
Crime, Feud, and Resistance in Early Nineteenth-Century Mewat --
State Formation and Meo Resistance --
The Feud, State Crime, and Abducted Women --
Debating Kingship --
The Prose and Verse of Rebellion: The Gadar of 1857 --
Anticolonialism and Rebellion in British and Princely India --
Debating 1857 --
Kings, Peasants, and Bandits --
Paramountcy and the Princely State of Alwar --
Revenue and Resistance --
The Tragedy of Heroism: The Bandits Ghurchari and Mev Khan --
Meo Narratives in Summary.
9780231127318
Folk literature
305.69710544 / MAY/A
Against history, against state: counterperspectives from the margins/ Shail Mayaram - New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. - xxii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - (Cultures of history) .
Orality and Writing --
Myth and History --
State Formation --
Marginality and Resistance --
The Making of Meo Marginality --
Religion and Identity --
The Meo Oral Tradition --
Antistate: The Pal Polity --
The Palon ki Bansabali, or the "Genealogy" of the Pals --
Decentering Power: The Pal Polity --
Genealogy, Memory, and Community --
Toward a Critique of Indo-Persian Historiography --
Mewati Otherness in Indo-Persian Historiographical Texts --
Imperial State Formation and Resistance --
State Formation: The Mughal Empire --
State Formation: The Rajput Kingdom --
The Persian Administrative Discourse --
Panch Pahar ki larai: An Anti-Imperial Narrative --
The Construction of Meo Criminality: Toward a Critique of Colonial Ethnography --
On Criminality --
On Colonial Ethnography --
The Ethnographic Construction of Meo Criminality --
The Evidence of Meo Criminality --
The Mewati Narrative of Dariya Khan --
Crime, Feud, and Resistance in Early Nineteenth-Century Mewat --
State Formation and Meo Resistance --
The Feud, State Crime, and Abducted Women --
Debating Kingship --
The Prose and Verse of Rebellion: The Gadar of 1857 --
Anticolonialism and Rebellion in British and Princely India --
Debating 1857 --
Kings, Peasants, and Bandits --
Paramountcy and the Princely State of Alwar --
Revenue and Resistance --
The Tragedy of Heroism: The Bandits Ghurchari and Mev Khan --
Meo Narratives in Summary.
9780231127318
Folk literature
305.69710544 / MAY/A