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Amin, Shahid.

Event, metaphor, memory : Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 / Shahid Amin. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995. - xiv, 256 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.; Pbk.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-252) and index.

Part One
Impressions
1 The Riot and History
2 A Narrative of the Event

Part Two
3 Chauri Chaura-Dumri-Mundera

Part Three
4 Fraudulent Reports
5 The Lessons of the Riot
6 The Crime of Chauri Chaura
7 Nationalizing the Riot
8 The Case for Punishment and Justice
9 Dwarka Gosain's Complaint

Part Four
10 Violence and Counterinsurgency
11 The Making of the Approver
12 Shikari' s Testimony
13 The Approver and the Accused
14 Judicial Discourse
15 The Alimentary Aspects of Picketing
16 The Politics of the Trial

Part Five
17 Historian's Dilemma
18 Dumri Records
19 The Youthful Account
20 Komal-Dacoit
21 The Babu-saheb of Mundera
22 The Madanpur Narrative
23 Malaviya Saves Chotki Dumri
24 The Great Betrayal
25 A Powerful 'Mukhbir'
26 The One-Seven-Two of Chauri Chaura
27 The Policemen Dead
28 The Darogain
29 The Presence of Gandhi
30 Otiyars
31 Chutki, or the Gift of Grain
32 The Feast of 4 February 1922
33 The Colour Gerua and Proper Nationalist Attire
34 What the Otiyars Wore
35 Witness to a History
36 Towards Conclusion
37 Epilogue
Appendix A: Pratigya-Patr

ISBN: 9780520087804 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 94000737

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Chauri Chaura (India)--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: / A45 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 954.2 AMI