Ram Gharib Chaube
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Ram Gharib Chaube was an Indian scholar who assisted William Crooke in various ethnographic researches during the period of the British Raj.
Chaube was from the eastern
Chaube became much involved in Notes and Queries and proved himself to be a methodical collector, collator and translator[5] whose specialism was local custom that was not recorded in Sanskrit works.[1] He subsequently claimed to have assisted with much information in Crooke's Popular Religion and Folklore, which was first published in 1894, quickly sold out and was then re-issued as a two-volume revised and illustrated edition in 1896.[6] Chaube resented that his input was not acknowledged by Crooke. His contribution to Tribes and Castes of the North Western Provinces, published in 1896, was only briefly acknowledged in two footnotes.[7] The relative contributions to the latter have been described by Chandrashekhar Shukl: "While Chaube was going places collecting information, Crooke used to sometimes delve into collecting tit bits."[8][9] Crooke did, however, pay Chaube well and, although he was himself an employee of the Raj, he did so from his own pocket.[10]
Sandra B. Freitag sees the relationship between Crooke and Chaube as "... a key example of the inter-related processes by which British decisions over what to emphasise [in their amateur studies of social science] were given their substance by the social preoccupations and prejudices of their indigenous informants". She notes this as an opinion shared by Shahid Amin, who had voiced it in his introduction to the Oxford University Press reprint of Crooke's A Glossary of North Indian Peasant Life, published in 1989.[11] However, Christopher Bayly interprets the views of Amin differently, believing him to be saying that informants such as Chaube "... were simply providers of fact; they did not really influence the form of colonial knowledge."[1]
Chaube went on to work as an employee of the
Works
Bhojpuri
- Jangal me Mangal
- Nagari Vilaap
References
Notes
- ^ Shahid Amin notes that Crooke and Grierson both joined the Indian Civil Service in 1871 and that "Crooke and Grierson were [respectively] Collector-ethnologist and Collector-linguist par excellence of the Ganga valley".[12]
Citations
- ^ a b c Bayly 2000, p. 354
- ^ Naithani 2006, p. 4
- ^ a b Naithani 2006, p. 44-45
- ^ Naithani, Crooke & Chaube 2002, p. xxiii-xxiv
- ^ Naithani 2006, p. 38
- ^ Naithani 2006, p. 49-50
- ^ Naithani 2006, p. 49-51
- ^ Naithani 2006, p. 50-51
- ^ Shukl 1952, p. 98
- ^ Naithani, Crooke & Chaube 2002, p. xli
- ^ Freitag 1991, p. 242
- ^ a b Amin 2011, p. 6-7
Bibliography
- Amin, Shahid (2011), The Marginal Jotter: Scribe Chaube and the Making of the Great Linguistic Survey of India c. 1890-1920 (PDF), Occasional Publication, India International Centre, retrieved 7 January 2013
- Bayly, Christopher Alan (2000), Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521663601
- Freitag, Sandra B. (May 1991), "Crime in the Social Order of Colonial North India", Modern Asian Studies, 25 (2), Cambridge University Press: 227–261, S2CID 144935929(subscription required)
- Naithani, Sadhana; Crooke, William; Chaube, Pandit Ram Gharib (2002), Folktales from northern India (Reprinted ed.), ABC-CLIO, ISBN 978-1-57607-698-9, retrieved 6 August 2011
- Naithani, Sadhana (2006), In quest of Indian folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-34544-8
- Shukl, Chandrashekhar (1952), Ramchandra Shukl: jeevan aur Krititva, Varanasi: Vanivitan Prakashan
Further reading
- Naithani, Sadhana (May–December 2002). "To Tell a Tale Untold: Two Folklorists in Colonial India". Journal of Folklore Research. 39 (2/3). Indiana University Press: 201–216. JSTOR 3814691. (subscription required)
- Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (August 1996). "Caste, Colonialism, and the Speech of the Colonized: Entextualization and Disciplinary Control in India". American Ethnologist. 23 (3): 494–513. JSTOR 646349. (subscription required)
- Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (2002). "The Erasure of Everyday Life in Colonial Ethnography". In Mines, Diane P.; Lamb, Sarah (eds.). Everyday Life in South Asia. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253215215.