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100			_aArun Kumar
245			_aBeyond muffled murmurs of dissent? Kisan rumour in Colonial Bihar
260			_c2000
300			_ap.95-125
362			_aOct
520			_aRumour as a language of peasant politics in colonial Bihar has remained unexplored hitherto. Studies by Ranajit Guha and Shahid Amin are forceful but require further probing. Peasants deployed rumour as a device to articulate political aspirations and create public opinion when mass politics had yet to become a generalised affair. Such remours often had religious sources and locations. Gandhi's idioms were successfully received by the masses owing to a field already prepared by rumour within which these ideas could take root and flourish. Arguably, the religious overtones and prophetic pronouncements of Gandhian mass politics borrowed heavily from an earlier polity that was based on rumour. A study of nineteenth century rumour is illuminating not only for the insight it provides into the manner in which politics was conducted then, but also for the indications it gives about politics of the future. - Reproduced
650			_aPeasantry - India - Bihar
650			_aPeasantry
773			_aJournal of Peasant Studies
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