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Unclaimed Harvest
Author | : Kavita Panjabi |
Publisher | : Zubaan |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9385932500 |
1943: As the British Empire draws to a close, the state of Bengal is just emerging from the grip of famine. Exploited mercilessly by feudal landlords, landless peasants rise in protest and launch a movement in 1946 to retain two-thirds of the grain they harvest - Tebhaga. More than 50,000 women participated in this movement: one whose history and tragic end - in the crossfire between state violence and revolutionary armed struggle - became a legend in its time. Yet in the written history of Tebhaga, the full-fledged women's movement that they forged has never featured. In this authoritative study, based on interviews and women's memories, Kavita Panjabi sets the balance right with rare sensitivity and grace. Using critical insights garnered from oral history and memory studies, Panjabi raises questions that neither social history nor left historiography ask. In doing so, she claims the past for a feminist vision of radical social change. This account of the transformation of the struggle is unique in feminist scholarship movements.
Peasants' Movements in Post-Colonial India
Author | : Debal K Singharoy |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2004-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761998266 |
This is an investigation of the anatomy and internal dynamics of peasant movements in India. It makes a comparative analysis of the Tebhaga (Bengal, 1946-47), Telengana (Andhra, 1948-52) and Naxalite (North Bengal, 1967-71) movements to study the ways in which grassroots mobilizations transform and institutionalize themselves, forge new collective identities and articulate new strategies for survival and resistance. The author uses empirical data and secondary research to argue that radicalism in peasant movements is in inverse proportion to institutionalization. As spontaneous expressions of discontent against oppression and marginalization become institutionalized movements, the space for radical challenge shrinks. Therefore, in Bengal, the co-option of the peasant movement by the ruling communist party and the state has largely killed the scope for radical action. In Andhra Pradesh on the other hand, the relative independence of the grassroots mobilization process (along with logistic and ideological inputs from NGOs and radical social and Naxalite groups) has allowed the peasantry to exercise multiple options for collective action. However, in both cases, the grassroots mobilization has led to a transformation of the social identity of the peasant, and created a social environment in which issues of dominance and resistance have an important place. The study of the Indian experience is placed in the context of theories of peasant identity and resistance to oppression. The first chapter of the book is devoted to the summing up of sociological perspectives on peasant societies, identities and movements. It includes references to the works of Marx and Lenin, Redfield, Chayanov, Wolf and Gramsci, and, in the Indian context, Beteille, Byres and several others. The book reexamines problems that have got relatively less importance in recent years. It seeks to understand issues that are of enduring relevance in the Indian countryside that continues to simmer with unrest even as it comes to grips with a new economic situation. The book will be of as much interest to researchers and policymakers as to the intelligent general reader.
Women in the Tebhaga Uprising
Author | : Peter Custers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
ISBN | : |
On the role of women in the 1946-1947 peasant movement in Bengal urging a larger share of produce for tillers.
The Sundarbans
Author | : Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351587404 |
The book is about the colonization of the Sunderbans that began with the coming of the British. For two centuries, land-hungry peasants strove to transform the tidal forest vegetation into an agro- ecosystem dominated by paddy fields and fish culture. The construction of a permanent railroad led to the spreading of the co- operative movement, the formation of peasant organizations, and finally culminated in open rebellion by the peasants (tebhaga).
A History of Bangladesh
Author | : Willem van Schendel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108620337 |
Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and updated edition, Van Schendel offers a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia. Based on the latest academic research and covering the numerous historical developments of the 2010s, he provides an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people. A perfect survey for travellers, expats, students and scholars alike.
Peasant Protest in Indian Politics
Author | : Asok Majumdar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
ISBN | : |
Covers Tebhaga Movement In Bengal Which Started After The Great Killings Of August 1946. 9 Chapters - Bibliographical Notes - Glossary - Bibliography - Index.
The Tebhaga Movement
Author | : Asok Majumdar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
ISBN | : 9789350021590 |
Literature and Gender
Author | : Supriya Chaudhuri |
Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Feminism and literature |
ISBN | : 9788125022275 |
This book brings together a rich collection of new work on the cultural interface of literature and gender, ranging from essays on medieval and Renaissance Europe to nineteenth-century political movements, and representations in modern Indian film. The contributors are some of the most distinguished scholars of our time, working in Europe and in India.
Harvest Song
Author | : Sābitrī Rāẏa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This epic panorama of rural Bengal, is set in the time of the Tebhaga movement of the 1940s, the peasants' uprising against unjust 'taxes' by landlords that was led by the Communist Party. Spanning generations, this story relates how the struggle changed rural Bengal. Roy depicts a range of women, educated and the less educated, who join the struggle and find some freedom in their lives. With a rare sensitivity and a tremendous sweep of vision, she narrates the triumph, the idealism and the stories of those who fought for or resisted change.