Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia

Covering groups from peasants to urban laborers, and from women to merchants, the essays in this volume depict a rich variety of non—confrontational forms of resistance and contestatory behaviors that challenge our usual assumptions about the overt nature of resistance to dominant powerholders. Taken together, the essays suggest that a much wider range of socio—cultural practices must be taken into account if we wish to understand how the world of dominated groups is constrained, modified a...