The book showcases peasants’ memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule and their musings on the unprecedented shifts that a half-century of Indian independence has wrought. It is an oral history of the former Kingdom of Sawar in the modern state of Rajasthan as it was from the 1930s to the 1950s. Based on testimonies from the rural community, this polyvocal account of the region’s radical political and environmental changes is not just the ...
