The Nature of Social Change in Rural Gujarat: The Kheda District, 1818

The Nature of Social Change in Rural Gujarat: The Kheda District, 1818–1918

Published:1981-10 Issue:4 Volume:15 Page:771-821
ISSN:0026-749X
Container-title:Modern Asian Studies
language:en
Short-container-title:Mod. Asian Stud.

Author:

Bates Crispin N.

Abstract

The Kheda (or Kaira) district has lately attracted great interest among Indian historians, not only because it was the area in which Gandhi chose to launch the very first peasant ‘satyagraha’ in resistance to government revenue demands, but also because it harboured a highly progressive class of peasant farmers, known as the Patidars, who to this day rank among the wealthiest cultivators in Western India.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,History,Geography, Planning and Development

Reference233 articles.

1. Shah , Caste Association and Political Process in Gujarat, pp. 123 and 130–3. Shah claims that Patidars deliberately made Kshatriyas unwelcome in the Congress party, and that the first Kshatriya political meeting was organized in 1942 in opposition to the plans of Patidar nationalists to blow up railway lines and bridges.

2. Land Revenue Proceedings, 1900, pp. 809 and 1640; and Land Revenue Proceedings, 1895, pp. 868 and 970.

3. Ahmedabad Gazetteer, p. 151.

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