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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9788194921073 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
954.123 |
| Item number |
AMI |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Amin, Shahid |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Thumb printed : Champaran indigo peasants speak to Gandhi |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
v.1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Navajivan Trust and National Archives of India, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New Delhi : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
lxv, 307 p.; |
| Other physical details |
ill., |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
500.00 |
| Price type code |
INR |
| Unit of pricing |
1.00 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Gandhi arrived in Champaran, Bihar, in April 1917, to inquire into the conditions of peasants growing indigo for European planters. For this, he required his local associates to go out and record what the peasants had to say about their plight. The enthusiasm generated by this novel move resulted in a vast storehouse of peasant-speak, untouched by scholars so far. Translated on the spot from local Bhojpuri into English, these remarkable first-person narratives, preserved in India's National Archives, have now been edited with explanatory notes by Shahid Amin, Tridip Suhrud and Megha Todi. ‘Thumb Printed’ is a rare collection of what ordinary peasants experienced, recalled, and authenticated, by affixing their thumb-impressions as a sign of veracity. When peasants speak, an entire world speaks. The fine weave of the stories in this volume enables us to visualize these peasants working the indigo fields in flesh and blood, tilling, weeding, watering, carting their indigo crop to factories, getting shortchanged, fined … literally pilloried and beaten into submission. An exemplary work of scholarship and editorial craft, this volume would be long regarded as opening a new window on to the world of peasants, not as an abstraction but through the articulation of their lived experience. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Politics and goverment |
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Indigo industry |
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Mahatma Gandhi |
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Indian Peasants |
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Champaran, Bihar |
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Colonialism |
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Exploitation |
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British rule. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Suhrud, Tridip |
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| Personal name |
Todi, Megha |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Item type |
Books |