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Against history, against state: counterperspectives from the margins/ Shail Mayaram

By: Mayaram, ShailMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: (Cultures of history)Publication details: New York: Columbia University Press, 2003Description: xxii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780231127318Subject(s): Folk literatureDDC classification: 305.69710544

Contents:

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.

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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.

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