| #825134 in Books | 1995-10-26 | 1995-10-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.19 x.70 x5.35l,.73 | File type: PDF | 210 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Curtia Momon|needed the book for class.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| From Event to Metaphor|By Noman Baig|Shahid Amin discusses the ways in which colonialist and nationalist discourses have been appropriating the incident of Chauri Chaura that took place in the early twentieth century in Nort|About the Author|
Shahid Amin is Professor of History at Delhi University. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford, Princeton, and Berlin. He has authored Sugarcane and Sugar in Gorakhpur (1984), as well as several seminal essays in Subaltern
Taking Gandhi's statements about civil disobedience to heart, in February 1922 residents from the villages around the north Indian market town of Chauri Chaura attacked the local police station, burned it to the ground and murdered twenty-three constables. Appalled that his teachings were turned to violent ends, Gandhi called off his Noncooperation Movement and fasted to bring the people back to nonviolence. In the meantime, the British government denied that the ri...
You easily download any file type for your device.Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 | Shahid Amin. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
