A CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF NORTH INDIAN PEASANT LIFE by Shahid Amin ( 9788173045974 )

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Title:

A CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF NORTH INDIAN PEASANT LIFE
BEING A COMPILATION FROM THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM CROOKE, J.R. REID, G.A. GRIERSON

Volume:

By:

Shahid Amin

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£125.00
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ISBN 10:

8173045976

ISBN 13:

9788173045974

Publisher:

MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

Pub. date:

1 January, 2005

Pages:

596

Synopsis:

During the late nineteenth-century British officials, often doubling as scholar-collectors, created a huge and variegated colonial archive, collecting, arranging and recasting information about The Natives of India into compendia for ready reference and administrative recall. Taking these neglected official materials on peasant and rural life, the distinguished historian Shahid Amin has fashioned a new synthesis, one that interrogates the colonial understanding of rural Indians with an insiders historical inflections. Amins Concise Encyclopaedia weaves an intricate tapestry of crops, seasons, products, beliefs, ceremonies, aphorisms and folk adages, showcasing all the while the multiple dimensions of rural life, and the unlikely but enduring threads that bind and sustain the peasant world. In this Encyclopaedia, Amin has reproduced and engaged with the text of Crookes Glossary, Reids famous description of the agricultural calendar and of his little known Compilation of a peasant dictionary.He also incorporates and works with selections from Griersons voluminous writings on language and literature to explore the issues of rusticity, simplicity and wisdom that characterize much of rural life. A marked feature of this work is the constant dialogue that the editor sets up between the late-nineteenth century colonial experts and the contemporary historian, one with a sure grasp both of the colonial archive as well as popular culture and idiom of contemporary north Indian peasant life. Amins scholarly, incisive and lucid introduction, coupled with his additions and explanatory footnotes are enriched by rare colour plates and line drawings. Together these enable the reader, both scholar and lay person, to understand better Both peasant life and culture, and the Ways of colonial ethnography.

Illustrations:

13 illus

Publication:

India

Imprint:

Manohar Publishers and Distributors

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Returnable

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