Contesting Power

Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia

By: Douglas E. Haynes (Editor), Gyan Prakash (Editor)

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Hardcover | 20 February 1992 | Edition Number 1

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Covering groups from peasants to urban laborers, and from women to merchants, the essays in this volume depict a rich variety of non-confrontational forms of resistance and contestatory behaviors that challenge our usual assumptions about the overt nature of resistance to dominant powerholders. Taken together, the essays suggest that a much wider range of socio-cultural practices must be taken into account if we wish to understand how the world of dominated groups is constrained, modified and conditioned by power relations.

Topics range from the form of resistance represented by the lifestyle of the courtesans of Lucknow (Veena Oldenberg), to the interaction between overt and indirect resistance by millworkers of Bombay (Raj Chandavarkar), and the indirect way of influencing political events exercised by merchants who did not want to appear dominant. Unconventional sources and methods have been used to supplement traditional archival research, such as the analysis of three forms of an origin myth to illustrate the ways in which the very act of narrativizing an event automatically provides contestation (Gyan Prakash).

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Preface
Introduction: The Entanglement of Power and Resistance	p. 1
Lifestyle as Resistance: The Case of the Courtesans of Lucknow	p. 23
Issues of Widowhood: Gender and Resistance in Colonial Western India	p. 62
Workers' Resistance and the Rationalization of Work in Bombay between the Wars	p. 109
Becoming a Bhuinya: Oral Traditions and Contested Domination in Eastern India	p. 145
Cultural and Social Resistance: Gambling in Colonial Sri Lanka	p. 175
Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact	p. 213
From Avoidance to Confrontation? A Contestatory History of Merchant-State Relations in Surat, 1600-1924	p. 239
South Asian Resistance in Comparative Perspective	p. 290
Index	p. 307
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