Eric Thomas Stokes
Eric Thomas Stokes (1924–1981) was a historian of
He was the author of The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India and The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857.
The Peasant Armed
The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857, as per note of editor
As per Bayly, "in Stokes
The book chapters discuss the Military dimension of British strategy and tactics, as well of Sepoy Rebels, the Peasant World and British Administration. Stokes own passion for the links between sepoy mutiny and civil rebellion in 1857, are explored in detail, with reference to Delhi region, Haryana countryside, Meerut District, Muzaffarnagar District and Saharanpur district.
The India Connection
Bayly notes that, "Stokes returned again and again to the peasant world of India, by whose color and vitality he had been enthralled when serving as a subaltern in the Indian Mounted Artillery during the War. He completed detailed work on the Delhi area after visiting India in 1975-6. This visit seemed to prove to him the vacuousness of the broad caste categories."
Stokes and Caste as Category of Analysis
Bayly mentions that the chapters in "The Peasant Armed", demonstrate a slow modification of the notion that caste was the key category of revolt or, in any simple sense, the basic unit of Indian rural society. Anthropologists in Britain and America were themselves moving away from the monolithic view of caste.[1]
Selected bibliography
- Stokes, Eric (1980), The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India, Cambridge University Press, p. 316, ISBN 978-0-521-29770-7.
- Stokes, Eric; Bayly, C.A. (ed.) (1986), The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857, Oxford: Clarendon, p. 280, ).
- Stokes, Eric (1990), The English Utilitarians and India, New Delhi and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 372, ISBN 978-0-19-562355-0
Other references
- Christopher Bayly, "Stokes, Eric Thomas (1924–1981)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, first published Sept 2004.
- Hasan, Mushirul; Gupta, Narayani, eds. (2004), India's Colonial Encounter: Essays in Memory of Eric Stokes, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers. Pp. xv, 484., ISBN 978-81-7304-536-3
- ^ Page 228 - 229, The Peasant Armed, Editor's Concluding Note
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