Champaran and Gandhi: Planters, Peasants, and Gandhian PoliticsThis book traces the history of peasant resistance to the planters, from the sporadic outbreaks of the 1860s to the Champaran Movement of 1917-18, the first experiment in Gandhian mass mobilization in India. |
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Contents
THE INDIGO OF BIHAR | 1 |
THE INDIGO ENTERPRISE | 33 |
Rents | 48 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Champaran and Gandhi: Planters, Peasants, and Gandhian Politics French studies in South Asian culture and society |
| Authors | Jacques Pouchepadass, Pouchepadass Jacques, Taļ Walker |
| Translated by | James Walker, Walker James |
| Edition | 2, illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0195640845, 9780195640847 |
| Length | 277 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / India & South Asia |
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