In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan

by Bhoju Ram Gujar, Ann Grodzins Gold, Bhoju Gujar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328208
• ISBN13: 9780822328209
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.7"