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Colonial lists/Indian power: identity politics in nineteenth century Telugu-speaking India
Michael Katten
Documents how various groups and peoples changed the ways they spoke about themselves over the course of the 19th century in Telugu-speaking India, by using historically contingent and locally functional formulations of identity.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction
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[Intro]
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The Subjectivity of the Subject
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The Case of Dominating Identity
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A Problem of Indian Historiography: Why Categories Are Important
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Category Production
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Identity Formation in Telugu India
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Appendix 1A Notes on Identity
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Identity as the Operative Discourse on the Self
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Caste and Identity
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Appendix 1B Notes on Nationalism
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Why Nationalism?
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Provisional Starting Points
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Subaltern Studies: Problems in Progress
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2 Resolving Boundary Disputes: Circumambulating New Identities
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[Intro]
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The Workings of Village Boundary Disputes
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Beneath These Disputes Surrounding the Boundary
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Strategies for Proposing Boundaries
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The Extent of Colonial Influence in Making Boundaries
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Articulating a Village Identity
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Later Boundary Dispute Resolution
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Appendix 2A Supplemental Boundary Materials
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Boundary Markers Contemporary Village Markers
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[Intro]
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Villages
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District Boundary Markers: Krishna / Khammam
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Markers in General
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Affidavit
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Boundary Markers Paddy Fields
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3 Petitions, Petitioners, and the Petitioned: Developing Categories through Official Languages of the Self
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[Intro]
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Me and My Government: Petitions as Indicators of Changing Relationships
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The Place of the Petition within the Archives
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Varying Functions for the Petition
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The Uses of Naming in the Context of the Petition
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Coming Full Cycle
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When the Petition Did Not Work
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One Conclusion for the Petition
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Appendix 3A Proceedings Relating to the Use of "Native" Terms
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4 Making Caste in Nineteenth-Century India: A History of Telling the Bobbili Katha and Velama Identity
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[Intro]
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1757: The Events as Historians Have Rendered Them
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Regarding the Relationship between an Event and Its Story: 1757 and Beyond
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Beyond 1757: From Historiography to Folklore
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Narrative in the Epic
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Beri Komatis
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The Killing Narrative
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The "Typing" of and "Pointing" to Characters in the Katha
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Contextualizing the Bobbili Katha within Telugu Oral Narrative
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Beyond an Oral Narrative Tradition: The Colonial Archive and Two References to the Events at Bobbili
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To the Twentieth-Century Printed Version of the Bobbili Narrative: The Pedda Bobbili Raja Katha
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Narrative in the Book
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Bussy in the Book
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The Final Battle and the Ultimate Differences between Manuscript and Book
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The Conclusion of Narrative and the Creation of Velama
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Epilogue
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Appendix 4A Supplemental Materials: Contemporary Bobbili and Vizianagaram
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Appendix 4B Supplemental Materials: Making Caste in Nineteenth-Century India: A History of Telling the Bobbili Katha and Velama Identity
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Text
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Film/Video
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Images
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5 Weavers of Coastal Andhra
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[Intro]
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Introduction
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Weaver Definitions and Defining Weavers The "System" and the Representation of Weaver Complaints
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Weaver Actions and Articulations Antitax Protest and the Stakes in Being a Weaver
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The Moturpha and the Company's Quandary—It Was Relatively Insignificant
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Weavers Acted on These Moturpha Negotiations
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Further Forms of Weaver Protest: Indictments of the System and (Mis)understandings of Those Protests
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Coming to Terms with the Term Weaver
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Vestiges of the "Weaver" Category Historiography
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From Colonizing to Orientalizing Handloom Textile Production
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Conclusion
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Appendix 5A: Comparison of English and French Prices Paid for Cloth in 1795
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Appendix 5B Supplemental Materials: Weavers of Coastal Andhra
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Three Pages from the 1891 Census of the Madras Presidency Relating to Weaver Castes
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Contemporary Images of Textile Workers
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[Intro]
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Mangalagiri
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Pedana
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Uppada
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Penuganchiprólu
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Transcription of a Report on Problems with the "Cobdar System" at Vizagapatam, 1818
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Styles from Selected Textile Centers
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Remains from Selected Factory Towns Throughout Coastal Andhra
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[Intro]
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Bhimilipatnam
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Vizagapatam
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The Machilipatnam (Bandar) Fort
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Nagaluvancha
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The Collector's Residence
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The Collectorate
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Moglaturu
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Kharidar Petitions
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Conclusion
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[Intro]
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Appendix 6A Statues and the Case of False Unities
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[Intro]
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Hyderabad
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Gateways Modeled After the Gates Erected at Warangal
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Visakhapatnam
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Video
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Bobbili Yuddham (The Bobbili War), an Indian film of the 1950's
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A Performance of the Bobbili Katha
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The February 9th, 2001, Performance of the Bobbili Katha
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The Troupe that Sang the Bobbili Katha on the 9th of February, 2001
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Contemporary Weaver Video
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Archive
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Additional Text Resources
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Sample Petitions
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Kharidar Petitions
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Sample Petitions sent to C.P. Brown
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Sumati Satakam Versions
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Images of Palm Leaf Sumati Satakam Verse
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Larger Collection of Verses from One Palm-leaf Version of the Sumati Satakam
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Selected Verses from Charles Philip Brown's 1832 Rendering of the Sumati Satakam
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Full Transcription of One Palm-leaf Version of the Sumati Satakam in Telugu
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Maps
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The Coastal Districts of Andhra Pradesh
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Additional Maps for Chapter 4 Making Caste in Nineteenth-Century India
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Additional Maps for Chapter 5 Weavers of Coastal Andhra
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Historical Maps
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Notes
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1 Introduction
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2 Resolving Boundary Disputes: Circumambulating New Identities
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3 Petitions, Petitioners, and the Petitioned: Developing Categories through Official Languages of the Self
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4 Making Caste in Nineteenth-Century India: A History of Telling the Bobbili Katha and Velama Identity
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5 Weavers of Coastal Andhra
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Selected Manuscript Collections
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Archival Materials
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Printed Telugu Sources
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Other Sources
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Links
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About the Author
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 108.5 (Dec. 2003) | http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/108.5/br_20.html |
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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