Power, Agrarian Structure, and Peasant Mobilization in Modern India

[Details of Symposium Program below]

Friday 23 May	Saturday 24 May	Sunday 25 May
2-5 pm Contexts and Paradigms	9-Noon Environments and Identities	10-Noon Comparative Perspectives
	2-5 pm The Bihar Agrarian

The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia announces the holding of a two-day symposium, , "Power, Agrarian Structure, and Peasant Mobilization in Modern India," on May 23-25, 1997 in Minor Hall at the University of Virginia, to commemorate the scholarly and foundational contributions of Walter

Hauser, Professor Emeritus in South Asian history. Professor Hauser taught in the University of Virginia's Department of History from 1960 until his retirement in 1995. The symposium celebrates his impact on the field of South Asian Studies, the discipline of history, and especially the study of Bihar's peasants and their involvement in the political process, his area of greatest research interest. Colleagues from around the world and students from over three decades of teaching, representing four generations of scholars from seven countries and four disciplines, will participate in this gathering of agrarian history and peasant studies scholars. Proceedings of the symposium will be published in a volume to be edited by Anand Yang, editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Professor Richard Barnett in the Department of History (e-mail: rbb@virginia.edu).

Symposium Program -
Power, Agrarian Structure, and
Peasant Mobilization in Modern India

A Symposium to honor Professor Emeritus Walter Hauser's contributions to peasant studies.

Funded by grants from PMD International, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Special Lectures Committee, Corcoran Department of History and the Center for South Asian Studies.

All panels will be held in the auditorium of Minor Hall

Contexts and Paradigms FRIDAY, 23 May 1997, 2:00-5:00
Chair: Daniel J. Ehnbom, Director-designate, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia

*Topic*	*Presentor*
Welcoming remarks	Rich Barnett University of Virginia
*Keynote Address*: Power, Agrarian Structure, and Peasant Mobilization in Modern India [Full text]	Majid Siddiqi Jawaharlal Nehru University
Borders, languages, peasants, nations: colonial concepts in India [Full-text]	Peter Robb SOAS, University of London
[break: 15 minutes]
The Indian Agricultural Problem, 1900-1950: Land, Labour, and Capital [Full-text]	Tom Tomlinson, University of Strathclyde

Discussants: Dharma Kumar, Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and Ian Barrow, University of Chicago

6:30-8:30 pm Reception

for symposium participants, guests, History and Center faculty, at Bayly Museum of Art

Environments and Identities Saturday 24 May 9:00-12:00
Chair: Daniel J. Ehnbom

*Topic*	*Presentor*
The Raw and the Simmered: Environmental Contexts of Food and Agrarian Relations in the Gangetic Plain [Full text]	James R. Hagen Email \| Frostburg State University
Forest Peoples, Frontiers, and Wildness in Western India	Ajay Skaria University of Virginia

[break: 15 minutes]

Subaltern Sadhus: Political Ascetics in Indian Myth, Memory, and History [Full-Text]	William R. Pinch Wes leyan University
When Peasants were Men [ Full-Text]	Wendy Singer Kenyon College

Discussants: Paul Brass, University of Washington, and Edith L. B. Turner, University of Virginia

12:00-1:45 pm LUNCH

The Bihar Agrarian Saturday, 23 May 1997, 2:00-5:00
Chair: Murray Milner, Jr., University of Virginia

*Topic*	*Presentor*
Swami and Friend [Full-text Draft]	Arvind Das Asia-Pacific Communication Associates, New Delhi (formerly Times of India)
'Baba' and Non-Cooperator: Congress' Co-optation of Agrarian Unrest in North India in the 1920s and 1930s [Full-text Draft]	Harold A. Gould Visiting Scholar University of Virginia
Haat-Looting: Markets, Peasants, and Noncooperation in Gangetic Bihar, 1920-1922	Anand Yang University of Utah

[break: 15 minutes]

The Peasants of Jharkhand and the peasants of Jharkhand: A Preliminary Appraisal [Full-text Draft]	Christopher V. Hill University of Colorado -Colorado Springs
Recorded interview with Bihar peasant activist in 1962 [Full text]	Sho Kuwajima Osaka University

Discussants: Frederick H. Damon, University of Virginia and Prem Shankar Jha, Visiting Professor, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia

6:30-10:30 pm Dinner
for symposium participants and guests at Rich Barnett's home, 1614 Meadowbrook Heights Road

Comparative Perspectives SUNDAY 25 May 10:00-12:30
Chair: Philip F. McEldowney, University of Virginia

*Topic*	*Presentor*
The Right to the Sea: the Struggle of Artisanal Fishers in Kerala since 1980 [Full-text Draft]	Peter Reeves Curtin Institute of Technology, Australia
Beyond Forest Boundaries: Peoples, Markets, and the State in Himalayan Punjab, 1850-1925 [Full-text Draft]	Ruhi Grover University of Virginia
Peasant Mobilization in South India, 1836-l957 [ Full text]	Ronald J. Herring Cornell University
Success and Failure in Rural Development: Maharashtra, Bihar and Bangladesh in the late 1980s. [Full-text Draft]	Harry Blair Bucknell University

Discussants: John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia and Sukirti Sahay, University of Virginia

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Symposium Organizer -

Richard B. Barnett
804/924-6416
History, Randall Hall, U.Va. fax 924-7891
Charlottesville, VA 22903

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