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In the Time of Trees and Sorrows - Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan (Paperback)
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In the Time of Trees and Sorrows - Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan (Paperback)
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"In the Time of Trees and Sorrows" showcases peasants' memories of
everyday life in North India under royal rule and their musings on
the contrast between the old days and the unprecedented shifts that
a half century of Indian Independence has wrought. It is an oral
history of the former Kingdom of Sawar in the modern state of
Rajasthan as it was from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Based on testimonies from the 1990s, this book stands as a
polyvocal account of the radical political and environmental
changes the region and its people have faced in the twentieth
century. Not just the story of modernity from the perspective of a
rural village, these interviews and author commentaries narrate
this small rural community's relatively sudden transformation from
subjection to a local despot and to a remote colonial power to
citizenship in a modern postcolonial democracy. Unlike other recent
studies of Rajasthan, the current study gives voice exclusively to
former subjects who endured the double oppression of colonial and
regional rulers. Gold and Gujar thus place subjective subaltern
experiences of daily routines, manifestations of power relations,
and sweeping changes to the environment (after the fall of kings)
that turned lush forests into a barren landscape on equal footing
with historical "fact" and archival sources. Ambiguous, complex,
and culturally laden as it is in Western thought, the concept of
nature is queried in this ethnographic text. For persons in Sawar
the environment is not only a means of sustenance, its
deterioration is linked to human morality and to power, both royal
and divine. The framing questions of this South Asian history
revealed through memories are: what was it like in the time of
kings and what happened to the trees?
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