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Colonial lists/Indian power: identity politics in nineteenth century Telugu-speaking India

Michael Katten

Year: 2009, c2001.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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table of contents

Title Page

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

[Intro]

The Subjectivity of the Subject

The Case of Dominating Identity

A Problem of Indian Historiography: Why Categories Are Important

Category Production

Identity Formation in Telugu India

Appendix 1A: Notes on Identity

Identity as the Operative Discourse on the Self

Caste and Identity

Appendix 1B: Notes on Nationalism

Why Nationalism?

Provisional Starting Points

Subaltern Studies: Problems in Progress

2: Resolving Boundary Disputes: Circumambulating New Identities

[Intro]

The Workings of Village Boundary Disputes

Beneath These Disputes Surrounding the Boundary

Strategies for Proposing Boundaries

The Extent of Colonial Influence in Making Boundaries

Articulating a Village Identity

Later Boundary Dispute Resolution

Appendix 2A: Supplemental Boundary Materials

Boundary Markers: Contemporary Village Markers

[Intro]

Villages

District: Boundary Markers: Krishna / Khammam

Markers in General

Affidavit

Boundary Markers: Paddy Fields

3: Petitions, Petitioners, and the Petitioned: Developing Categories through Official Languages of the Self

[Intro]

Me and My Government: Petitions as Indicators of Changing Relationships

The Place of the Petition within the Archives

Varying Functions for the Petition

The Uses of Naming in the Context of the Petition

Coming Full Cycle

When the Petition Did Not Work

One Conclusion for the Petition

Appendix 3A: Proceedings Relating to the Use of "Native" Terms

4: Making Caste in Nineteenth-Century India: A History of Telling the Bobbili Katha and Velama Identity

[Intro]

1757: The Events as Historians Have Rendered Them

Regarding the Relationship between an Event and Its Story: 1757 and Beyond

Beyond 1757: From Historiography to Folklore

Narrative in the Epic

Beri Komatis

The Killing Narrative

The "Typing" of and "Pointing" to Characters in the Katha

Contextualizing the Bobbili Katha within Telugu Oral Narrative

Beyond an Oral Narrative Tradition: The Colonial Archive and Two References to the Events at Bobbili

To the Twentieth-Century Printed Version of the Bobbili Narrative: The Pedda Bobbili Raja Katha

Narrative in the Book

Bussy in the Book

The Final Battle and the Ultimate Differences between Manuscript and Book

The Conclusion of Narrative and the Creation of Velama

Epilogue

Appendix 4A: Supplemental Materials: Contemporary Bobbili and Vizianagaram

Appendix 4B: Supplemental Materials: Making Caste in Nineteenth-Century India: A History of Telling the Bobbili Katha and Velama Identity

Text

Film/Video

Images

5: Weavers of Coastal Andhra

[Intro]

Introduction

Weaver Definitions and Defining Weavers: The "System" and the Representation of Weaver Complaints

Weaver Actions and Articulations: Antitax Protest and the Stakes in Being a Weaver

The Moturpha and the Company's Quandary—It Was Relatively Insignificant

Weavers Acted on These Moturpha Negotiations

Further Forms of Weaver Protest: Indictments of the System and (Mis)understandings of Those Protests

Coming to Terms with the Term Weaver

Vestiges of the "Weaver" Category: Historiography

From Colonizing to Orientalizing Handloom Textile Production

Conclusion

Appendix 5A: Comparison of English and French Prices Paid for Cloth in 1795

Appendix 5B: Supplemental Materials: Weavers of Coastal Andhra

Three Pages from the 1891 Census of the Madras Presidency Relating to Weaver Castes

Contemporary Images of Textile Workers

[Intro]

Mangalagiri

Pedana

Uppada

Penuganchiprólu

Transcription of a Report on Problems with the "Cobdar System" at Vizagapatam, 1818

Styles from Selected Textile Centers

Remains from Selected Factory Towns Throughout Coastal Andhra

[Intro]

Bhimilipatnam

Vizagapatam

The Machilipatnam (Bandar) Fort

Nagaluvancha

The Collector's Residence

The Collectorate

Moglaturu

Kharidar Petitions

Conclusion

[Intro]

Appendix 6A: Statues and the Case of False Unities

[Intro]

Hyderabad

Gateways Modeled After the Gates Erected at Warangal

Visakhapatnam

Video

Bobbili Yuddham (The Bobbili War), an Indian film of the 1950's

A Performance of the Bobbili Katha

The February 9th, 2001, Performance of the Bobbili Katha

The Troupe that Sang the Bobbili Katha on the 9th of February, 2001

Contemporary Weaver Video

Archive

Additional Text Resources

Sample Petitions

Kharidar Petitions

Sample Petitions sent to C.P. Brown

Sumati Satakam Versions

Images of Palm Leaf Sumati Satakam Verse

Larger Collection of Verses from One Palm-leaf Version of the Sumati Satakam

Selected Verses from Charles Philip Brown's 1832 Rendering of the Sumati Satakam

Full Transcription of One Palm-leaf Version of the Sumati Satakam in Telugu

Maps

The Coastal Districts of Andhra Pradesh

Additional Maps for Chapter 4: Making Caste in Nineteenth-Century India

Additional Maps for Chapter 5: Weavers of Coastal Andhra

Historical Maps

Notes

1: Introduction

2: Resolving Boundary Disputes: Circumambulating New Identities

3: Petitions, Petitioners, and the Petitioned: Developing Categories through Official Languages of the Self

4: Making Caste in Nineteenth-Century India: A History of Telling the Bobbili Katha and Velama Identity

5: Weavers of Coastal Andhra

Conclusion

Bibliography

Selected Manuscript Collections

Archival Materials

Printed Telugu Sources

Other Sources

Links

About the Author

reviews

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Colonial lists/Indian power : identity politics in nineteenth century Telugu-speaking India / Michael Katten.
Katten, Michael
New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, c2001.

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• Telugu (Indic people) -- India, South
• Caste -- India, South
• India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947

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