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Medieval peasants in England lived on a hearty diet of meat, vegetables and cheese

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He was born some time in the mid-nineteenth century into a family of poor peasants belonging to a community called Baraiyas.

He smoked large quantities of ganja marijuana , but had stopped drinking alcohol at some point. He was a. By I Daduram had assumed the leadership of one of the largest and most influential. I am grateful to the numerous disciples of Daduram who took the time to speak to me about their guru, and for.

Natvarsinh Solanki spent a great deal of time and energy introducing me to the intellectual culture of central Gujarat: I am. I have greatly benefited from the valuable comments and advice from Chris Bayly, Bina Parekh and Ken Pomeranz on an earlier version of this article.

Most Baraiyas were small peasants, who were classified by colonial officials as an 'inferior' agricultural community due to their. For a further discussion of the construction of colonial cate-. II', Ph. Population figures calculated from the Report on the Census of the Bombay Presidency taken on the 2Ist. February and the Census of India, Bombay Presidency, Please note that this article uses the contemporary spelling 'Kheda' instead of the British 'Kaira'. In direct citations or in references to official correspondence, the latter version is maintained.

But there were other attractions for poor Baraiya peasants: Daduram served unlimited amounts of food on these occasions, while publicly discussing and debating issues about the dominance of local elites and Indian nationalists Map 1. We know these details about Daduram from the records of the imperial archive. In , another bhagat named Ranchod Vira had declared the end of the British raj and raised a large number of armed.

Daduram's story could have ended here. After all, the lives of most peasants remain. My interest in pursuing Daduram's story was certainly influenced by my reading of historians writing about the intellectual ideas of peasants. He had established critiques of local peasant society and the colonial order, while articulating messages that had both political and religious meaning. The fragments of information from archival sources suggest that Daduram's public discourses were not only informed by but also influenced peasants as well as educated men. I was particularly interested in pursuing the claim that the ideas propagated by peasants were integral to the making of public life in India.

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Medieval peasants in England lived on a hearty diet of meat, vegetables and cheese

XXII, no. I, Administration Report, J. Kaye and Keith McClel- land eds , E. Thompson: Critical Perspectives Philadelphia, , Agriculture and agrarian society in the Bombay Presidency, Cambridge, Rather, Daduram's story shows that there was a circularity of ideas in the.

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It is difficult to map the details of the peasant movement after Daduram's death. Peasants did not maintain copious records, and colonial officials had shifted their attention to pressing matters that were viewed as greater threats to 'law and order', namely the upsurge of nationalism and other mass movements.

However, I was dissatisfied with the. I was aware that the government had imposed legal measures in I that prevented Baraiyas from.

Colonial power may have stopped the formal movement from growing into something larger, but I was also aware that the oral transmission of ideas propagated by Daduram simply could not be controlled. Baraiyas as a way to transmit his religious and political messages throughout central Gujarat.

Kheda District Delhi, For a comparative perspective on these themes see James C. Cohen, History in Three.

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Indeed, Christopher Bayly has suggested that gosains in particular "came the nearest of any Indian business community to the emerging bourgeoisie that European theorists from Sleeman to Marx wished to see. On the contrary, not to speak of new industries coming up, even the existing factories and mills are closing down, one after another, owing to the market crisis of the capitalists under the present capitalist economic system. Adding to this the number of the somewhat well-off middle peasants, that is, those who own land from above fifteen to fifty or sixty bighas, who make up about ten or eleven per cent, it comes out that in the hands of the remaining five or six per cent of the rural population some fiftyfive to sixty per cent of the total lands of the country have become concentrated. In the first place, because, as I did point it out earlier, carrying out the task of land distribution will not make land available to all agricultural labourers, landless and poor peasants. What made the middle class of the 19th century different was the initiation of new cultural politics that allowed them to articulate a new set of beliefs, values, and modes of politics, distinguishing them from other social groups both below and above. Sanjay Joshi, ed.

University, Baroda, In I I travelled to the town of Dakore, situated between the urban centres of Ahmedabad and Baroda. The Ramanandi cult arrived there sometime between , while Akbar's court arrived approximately 50 years later. The question is whether or not Akbar's influence spread from the Shankarite community to the Ramanuja camp and the Ramanandis, who later interfaced with our own Sampradaya Acarya, Baladeva Vidyabhusana. The reader will recall our previous references to Pinch, who wrote about Akbar's intervention in the massacre of Naga sadhus at Thaneswar, in Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires In his earlier book, Peasants and Monks in British India , the author likewise considered the Thaneswar battle in the context of the militarization of sadhus.

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Pinch gives an overview of the subject here: "Similarly, it is possible to perceive the social dimensions of militarization by looking within Shaiva and Vaishnava monastic traditions regarding the decision to take up arms. For example, a widely accepted Dasnami legend recorded by J. Farquhar in the early twentieth century held that Shaiva monks took up arms during the reign and with the approval of the Mughal emperor Akbar r.

While the motivational elements of this tradition can be challenged on the basis of both historical and historiographical evidence, it is perhaps more significant that Farquhar also related his general impression that the arming of Shaivas relied on the heavy recruitment of shudras into the elite ranks of the Dasnami order. Whether shudras were indeed actively recruited as soldier Dasnamis, or whether the assertion of past military recruitment became a convenient way of explaining the increasing number of shudras in the order, the fact remains that today certain segments of orthodox, high-caste Dasnamis avoid commensal relations with warrior monks because of the latter's supposedly low origins.

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Significantly, the Galta meeting in also marked the emergence of Ramanandis those who look to Swami Ramanand for inspiration as the dominant force not only among the followers of Ramanujacharya's teachings, but among Vaishnavas in north India generally.

While on the one hand this decision may have reflected the rise of caste mores amongst Vaishnavas, I prefer to interpret it as a move by socially conservative Vaishnavas to limit the ideological effects of what may have been a heavy influx of non-twice-born Ramanandis.