Subjugated nomads: the Lambadas under the rule of the Nizams/ Bhangya Bhukya
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TextPublication details: New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010Description: xxiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9788125039617; 8125039619Subject(s): Lambadi (Indic People) -- India -- Hyderabad (State) -- History | Peasants -- India -- Hyderabad (State) -- History | Agriculture and State -- India -- Hyderabad (State) -- HistoryDDC classification: 954.840086918 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Warwick).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-283) and index.
1. The Twilight World of the Caravan: Regulated Market
Economy and the Caravanners
A Brief History of the Lambada Caravanners; Fragmented Politics, Rivalries and Caravan Trade; Organisation of the Thanda and Caravan Trade; Regulated Market and Marginalisation of the Lambada Caravan; Impact of Technology on the Caravans.
2. Policing Cattle, Policing Nomads: Colonial Rationality and Cowherds
The Lambadas' Passion for Cattle; Cattle as an Economic Resource; Policing Cattle; Cattle Diseases and the Governance of Health.
3. 'Delinquent Subjects': Dacoity and the Creation of a Surveillance Society
The Colonial Construction of Lambada Criminality; Towards Dacoity; Policing Criminal Gangs; Criminal Settlements.
4. Modem Forms of Land Relations: Exploitation and Revolt
Becoming Peasants; Modem Forms of Land Relations; The Commoditisation of Agricultural Produce; The Marginalisation of the Lambada Peasantry; The Lambadas' Land Revolt.
5. Articulating Cultural Differences, Contesting Power: The Consolidation of the Lambadas as a Social and Political Entity
The Genealogy of the Lambadas' Spiritual Culture; Technologies of Self and Cultural Assertion; From Religious Reform to Identity Politics.
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