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Author Amin, Shahid.

Title Event, metaphor, memory : Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 / Shahid Amin
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description xiv, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Contents 1. The Riot and History -- 2. A Narrative of the Event -- 3. Chauri Chaura-Dumri-Mundera -- 4. Fraudulent Reports -- 5. The Lessons of the Riot -- 6. The Crime of Chauri Chaura -- 7. Nationalizing the Riot -- 8. The Case for Punishment and Justice -- 9. Dwarka Gosain's Complaint -- 10. Violence and Counterinsurgency -- 11. The Making of the Approver -- 12. Shikari's Testimony -- 13. The Approver and the Accused -- 14. Judicial Discourse -- 15. The Alimentary Aspects of Picketing -- 16. The Politics of the Trial -- 17. Historian's Dilemma -- 18. Dumri Records -- 19. The Youthful Account -- 20. Komal-Dacoit -- 21. The Babu-saheb of Mundera -- 22. The Madanpur Narrative -- 23. Malaviya Saves Chotki Dumri -- 24. The Great Betrayal -- 25. A Powerful 'Mukhbir' -- 26. The One-Seven-Two of Chauri Chaura -- 27. The Policemen Dead -- 28. The Darogain -- 29. The Presence of Gandhi -- 30. Otiyars -- 31. Chutki, or the Gift of Grain -- 32. The Feast of 4 February 1922
33. The Colour Gerua and Proper Nationalist Attire -- 34. What the Otiyars Wore -- 35. Witness to a History -- 36. Towards Conclusion -- 37. Epilogue -- Appendix A: Pratigya-Patr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-252) and index
SUBJECT Chauri Chaura (India) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94001911 -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436
Author American Council of Learned Societies.
LC no. 94000737
ISBN 0520087798 (alk. paper)
0520087801 (paperback: alk. paper)
Other Titles Event, Metaphor, Memory