Event, Metaphor, Memory – Chauri Chaura, 1922–1992 - Hardcover

Amin, Shahid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520087798 ISBN 13: 9780520087798

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

Taking Gandhi's statements about civil disobedience to heart, in February 1922 residents from villages around the north Indian market town of Chauri Chaura attacked the local police station, murdering 23 police constables. Appalled that his teachings were turned to violent ends, Gandhi called off his Non-cooperation Movement and fasted to bring the people back to non-violence. In the meantime, the British government denied that the riot reflected Indian resistance to its rule and tried the rioters as common criminals. These events took on great symbolic importance among Indians and this book examines the way in which the event has been remembered, interpreted and used as a metaphor for the Indian struggle for independence.

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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 Studies—of which project he is one of the founding editors.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0520087798
• ISBN 13: 9780520087798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 270