Peasants in India's non-violent revolution: practice and theory /
Mridula Mukherjee.
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2004.
- 577 p. ; 25 cm.
Peasant protest : the historical context -- Emergence of modern peasant organizations and fashioning a peasant agenda 1924-29 -- Marching with the nation : peasants and civil disobedience 1930-32 -- Consolidating peasant politics : national organization and ideological radicalization 1933-37 -- Peasant upsurge : reaching the high-water mark 1938-39 -- Anti-war, people's war and post-war : communists and peasants 1939-47 -- Peasant protest in a non-hegemonic state : the princely state of patiala 1930-53 -- Peasants and anti-colonial nationalism -- Peasants and non-violence : forms of protest and methods of mobilization -- Peasants and outsiders : social origins of leaders and participants -- Mapping peasant consciousness : elements of an alternative framework -- In conclusion : transforming peasant consciousness-practice versus theory.