Migrations in Medieval and Early Colonial India

ISBN-13: 9781138121928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 324 str.

Vijaya Ramaswamy

Opis

This book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective, breaking away from previous Eurocentric studies. The essays in the volume focus on labour, peasant and craft migrations, and in fleshing out the causes and trajectories taken by these communities, they speak to each other by addressing similar issues as well as documenting varying responses to analogous situations.

A fascinating history of migrations of people from below, the volume adopts a trans-disciplinary approach and uses inscriptions, official records, and literary texts along with community narratives and folk tradition. This will be of great interest to scholars and students of migration and diaspora studies, medieval and modern South Asian history, social anthropology and subaltern studies."

Spis treści

Foreword.  Preface. Acknowledgements.  Introduction  Part I Peasant Migrations Migration and Mobility: The Collective Memory of Kongu Vellalar Peasantry of South India 2.　Social Mobility and Migration among the Jats of Medieval India 3. Rethinking Mobility: The Story of the Gujars Part II Artisanal and Merchant Migrations 4. Pirla Panduga: Muharram Practices of the Deccan Weavers, Their Migrations, Songs and Memories 5.　Migrations of the Weaver Communities in Medieval Peninsular India, 13th–18th Centuries 6. From Marwar to Malwa and Back: Artisanal Mobility and Circulation during the Eighteenth Century 7. Many Madanpuras: Memories and Histories of Migrant Weavers of Northern India during 19th–20th Centuries 8. Circulation of People and Patterns of Maritime Migrations in the Indian Ocean during the Pre-modern Period  9. Meos in the process of Peasantisation and Islamisation in Medieval Period