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PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-100822328208
ISBN-139780822328209
eBay Product ID (ePID)2197686
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Book TitleIn the Time of Trees and Sorrows : Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicRoyalty, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
AuthorBhoju Ram Gujar, Ann Grodzins Gold
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight22.9 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width5.9 in
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LCCN2001-047512
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"This is an extraordinary history of postcolonial India as told through the lives of peasants and pastoralists, artisans and housewives. Drawing on many years of research, Gold and Gujar explore changing relations between state and subject, changing structures of production and consumption and, most innovatively, changes in the natural world in rural Rajasthan. Their research is rich, their analyses subtle and empathetic, their writing uncommonly evocative. This landmark study is at once a major contribution to environmental history, political anthropology, and folklore."--Ramachandra Guha, author of The Unquiet Woods and Environmentalism: A Global History, “A unique, densely textured historical and ethnographic account. Engaging scholarship on memory, environmental history, oral history, South Asian studies, and ethnographic experimentation, this book works on multiple registers. The authors’ observations about the sweat, dust, tears, and delights of fieldwork are also remarkable in their evocative force.�-Kirin Narayan, author of Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales, "This is an extraordinary history of postcolonial India as told through the lives of peasants and pastoralists, artisans and housewives. Drawing on many years of research, Gold and Gujar explore changing relations between state and subject, changing structures of production and consumption and, most innovatively, changes in the natural world in rural Rajasthan. Their research is rich, their analyses subtle and empathetic, their writing uncommonly evocative. This landmark study is at once a major contribution to environmental history, political anthropology, and folklore."-Ramachandra Guha, author of The Unquiet Woods and Environmentalism: A Global History, “This is an extraordinary history of postcolonial India as told through the lives of peasants and pastoralists, artisans and housewives. Drawing on many years of research, Gold and Gujar explore changing relations between state and subject, changing structures of production and consumption and, most innovatively, changes in the natural world in rural Rajasthan. Their research is rich, their analyses subtle and empathetic, their writing uncommonly evocative. This landmark study is at once a major contribution to environmental history, political anthropology, and folklore.�-Ramachandra Guha, author of The Unquiet Woods and Environmentalism: A Global History, "A unique, densely textured historical and ethnographic account. Engaging scholarship on memory, environmental history, oral history, South Asian studies, and ethnographic experimentation, this book works on multiple registers. The authors' observations about the sweat, dust, tears, and delights of fieldwork are also remarkable in their evocative force."--Kirin Narayan, author of Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales, "A unique, densely textured historical and ethnographic account. Engaging scholarship on memory, environmental history, oral history, South Asian studies, and ethnographic experimentation, this book works on multiple registers. The authors' observations about the sweat, dust, tears, and delights of fieldwork are also remarkable in their evocative force."--Kirin Narayan, author of Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales "This is an extraordinary history of postcolonial India as told through the lives of peasants and pastoralists, artisans and housewives. Drawing on many years of research, Gold and Gujar explore changing relations between state and subject, changing structures of production and consumption and, most innovatively, changes in the natural world in rural Rajasthan. Their research is rich, their analyses subtle and empathetic, their writing uncommonly evocative. This landmark study is at once a major contribution to environmental history, political anthropology, and folklore."--Ramachandra Guha, author of The Unquiet Woods and Environmentalism: A Global History, "A unique, densely textured historical and ethnographic account. Engaging scholarship on memory, environmental history, oral history, South Asian studies, and ethnographic experimentation, this book works on multiple registers. The authors' observations about the sweat, dust, tears, and delights of fieldwork are also remarkable in their evocative force."-Kirin Narayan, author of Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales
Dewey Decimal306.09544
Table Of ContentNote on Language ix Preface: "There Are No Princes Now" xi Acknowledgments xxi 1. The Past of Nature and the Nature of the Past 1 2. Voice 30 3. Place 53 4. Memory 78 5. Shoes 105 6. Court 126 7. Homes 162 8. Fields 211 9. Jungle 241 10. Imports 277 Appendix: Selected Trees and Plants Mentioned in Interviews 325 Notes 327 Glossary 369 References 373 Index 397
SynopsisA collaborative ethnography that collects ordinary persons' recollections of everyday life, politics, and the environment in Rajasthan from when the state was a kingdom and since independence, In the Time of Trees and Sorrows showcases peasants' memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule and their musings on the contrast between the old days and the unprecedented shifts that a half century of Indian Independence has wrought. It is an oral history of the former Kingdom of Sawar in the modern state of Rajasthan as it was from the 1930s to the 1950s. Based on testimonies from the 1990s, this book stands as a polyvocal account of the radical political and environmental changes the region and its people have faced in the twentieth century. Not just the story of modernity from the perspective of a rural village, these interviews and author commentaries narrate this small rural community's relatively sudden transformation from subjection to a local despot and to a remote colonial power to citizenship in a modern postcolonial democracy. Unlike other recent studies of Rajasthan, the current study gives voice exclusively to former subjects who endured the double oppression of colonial and regional rulers. Gold and Gujar thus place subjective subaltern experiences of daily routines, manifestations of power relations, and sweeping changes to the environment (after the fall of kings) that turned lush forests into a barren landscape on equal footing with historical "fact" and archival sources. Ambiguous, complex, and culturally laden as it is in Western thought, the concept of nature is queried in this ethnographic text. For persons in Sawar the environment is not only a means of sustenance, its deterioration is linked to human morality and to power, both royal and divine. The framing questions of this South Asian history revealed through memories are: what was it like in the time of kings and what happened to the trees?
LC Classification NumberHN690
