دانلود کتاب The Agaris of North-West Maharashtra: An Ethnographic Study

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Chapter 1.pdf
Chapter One
Introduction
1.1 The Agaris
1.2 The Agari worldview
1.3 Caste, ethnography and history
1.4 Ethnographic fieldwork and history
1.5 Chapter plan of the thesis
Chapter 2.pdf
Chapter Two
Anthropology and history of caste: some theoretical concerns
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Caste debates
Colonial discourse
‘Imagining India’
‘Sanskritization’ and ‘dominant caste’
Homo Hierarchicus
Was the crown really hollow?
Caste and race
Caste as exploitation
Caste as seen by Indians
The radical views on caste
Brahman at the apex
The evils of the caste system
Annihilation of caste
2.3 History and the anthropology of caste
Single caste studies
Non-Hindu religions and caste
Economic history
Sociological issues
Social history
E. P. Thompson and E. J. Hobsbawm
Social history in India
Subaltern studies
Historicizing the social sciences
Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Comaroff and R. W. Connell
Structure, agency and history
2.4 ‘Peasant’
Defining ‘peasant’
2.5 Conclusion
Chapter 3.pdf
Chapter Three
Fieldwork
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Some theoretical issues
History and anthropology
Politics of representation and the native anthropologist
My association with the Agaris
3.3 Fieldwork
Preparatory fieldwork
Research plan
3.4 Selection of the fieldwork site and entry
Selection of the site
Entry into the village
3.5 Establishing rapport
Going ‘native’: how easy is it for a ‘native’ anthropologist?
Rapport with women: familiarity, collective performances and rituals
Informants make sense of ‘researcher’
3.6 Documentation of ethnographic data
Ethnography: participant observation and interviews
Participant observation
Interviews: structured, semi-structured and open-ended
Ethnography: genealogies, folk-songs and documents
Folk songs
Documents
Documentation of ethnographic data
Quantitative sample survey: some insights
3.7 Conclusion
Chapter 4.pdf
Chapter Four
The region: ecology and society
4.1 Introduction
History
Yadavas
Bahamanis and the Deccan Sultanate
Marathas
Salt marshes of the Konkan coastline
Geological history of Konkan: Spread of Kharland in the Konkan – comparison of Ratnagiri and Raigad
Role of reclaimed salt marshes in the history of the Agaris
British takeover in 1818 and land settlement
Khoti: a comparison of southern and northern Konkan
Before the British
Khoti under the British land settlement
Pandharpeshe
Ryotwari
Caste and class society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Maharashtra - classes
The Commercial Bourgeoisie
Intelligentsia and the bureaucracy
Aristocracy
Peasantry
Caste and peasantry
Konkan
The Deccan and the Konkan: a comparison of caste society
Center and periphery: multi-caste and single caste villages
Low-key presence of the Brahmans
The fluid boundaries among the low castes
The caste clusters
Uran
Chapter 5.pdf
Chapter Five
The politics of land
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Politics of land: the peasant struggle against tenancy (1920 – 1948)
Khoti Tenure and the system of land administration
1920s: the Agari peasants and the struggle against khoti
1930s: The fallout in Brahmanetar Paksha, Ambedkar’s Independent Labour Party and the Agari peasant strikes
Peasant strike in Chari, Alibag
Independent Labour Party - 1936-1942
Peasant strike in Bhendkhal, Uran
Chirner: social banditry and peasant mobilization
5.3 The politics of land: land reforms (1950 – 1981)
Shetkari Kamgar Paksha (1948)
1947 and after: land reforms and abolition of tenancy
Mobilization of saltpan workers
5.4 The politics of land: the peasant struggle against land acquisition (1966–1984)
1970s: a decade of transition
CIDCO and the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966
Peasant mobilization against the land acquisition
1980s: after the peasant struggle
5.5 The politics of land: land as commodity (1985 – 2005)
The Shiv Sena enters the political scene (1980s and after)
History is repeated: 2000 and after
5.6 Conclusion
Chapter 6.pdf
Chapter Six
The politics of class and kinship
6.1 Introduction: ‘Class’, ‘Status’ and ‘Power’
6.2 The local caste and class structure
The Agaris in comparison with other castes
Stratification among the Agaris
Land and wealth
Sanskritization and marriage alliances
The non-brahman identity through life-cycle rituals: dhavalarin, dak and balipratipada
Virility and social honour: co-wives and male progeny
Agari ‘way of life’
Savkarshahi/pandharpeshe versus Kunabi/shetkari/Agari
6.3 Class, kinship and politics
Modes of informal power
Social banditry: Baraku Chirlekar and his band
The Chirlekars of Chincha pada, Chirner
The Kharpatils of Madhil Pada, Chirner
The Patils of Mool Pada, Chirner
The Thakurs of Dhasakhoshi, Khopata
The Mhatres of Madhil Pada, Chirner
Formal modes of power: electoral politics
Shetkari Kamgar Paksha and the peasant politics
The Shiv Sena
6.4 Conclusion
Chapter 7.pdf
Chapter Seven
Land, labour and gender
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Labour and gender: some theoretical concerns
Labour and subjectivity
Labour and identity: Kunabi, Kabadi and Mali
The subjective experience
Gender and labour
7.3 Making both ends meet
The Agari way of life before the 1970s:
Supplementing agriculture: Fati la jane (collecting firewood), kharit jholane (fishing in the creek) and majoori in hel and gavandi kam (wage labour in non-agricultural and masonry activities)
Firewood: fati/kuri
Wage labour: majoori – hel (daily wage- haulage), gavandikam (masonry), sutarkam (carpentry), mithagar (saltpan)
Fishing
Going to the cities
7.4 Land: the history of its making in and around Chirner
Chirner and neighbouring villages
Geography of the region
History of the reclamation of Kharland in the region
7.5 Chirner and its land
The non-agricultural land: gavthan
Agricultural land – Khari jamin and godi jamin (Sweetland and Kharland)
7.6 Labour, gender and caste in Chirner
Collective labour: jol, majat/madat
Bandh-bandisti (bund-maintenance): management of the Kharland
Working in the paddy field: a family enterprise
Preparing for the sowing: raab, dhepalani, kuravani, nangarani
Transplantation and harvesting: avanja/lavani, lani/kapani
Managing the cattle: govari and gai vathavane
The meal for the agricultural workers
Sharing labour for agriculture: majat, handa, parakel and hired labour
Majat
Handa
Parakel
Wage labour: nangarni, varaka, majoori
7.7 Conclusion
Chapter 8.pdf
Chapter Eight
Families, marriage relations and the gendered sharing of resources
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Family, lineage, neighbourhood and village: the markers of identities
Family and lineage: a review of literature
Family and lineage in practice
8.3 Bride-givers and bride-takers: greater symmetry than asymmetry
Marrying the daughter close-at-hand
Marrying the daughter among kin
Marriage proposals from the groom’s family
Dej (bride-price), exchange of marriage gifts and the expenses of marriage
Expenses of marriage
Exchange of gifts
Widowhood
Inheritance
The central role of the mama – MB
8.4 Sasar (conjugal home)/maher (natal home): the duality of a woman’s identity
8.5 Conclusion
Conclusions11Feb2008final.pdf
Chapter Nine
References.pdf
References