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Book Review

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Ann Grodzins Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar. In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2002. Pp. xxv, 403. Cloth $69.95, paper $23.95.

This book, produced jointly by an American professor and a school teacher from Rajasthan, is an unusual enterprise. It belongs to a genre of postcolonial studies that can not be located within the boundaries of any particular discipline. This particular work draws on the methods and insights of ethnography, oral history, and ecological history, to name only the mayor influences on its approach and contents. 1

The book's central purpose is to implement a new canon, recovering the "small voice" in history that is allegedly "drowned in the noise of statist commands." This is achieved mainly through interviews with individual members of the underprivileged classes, the so-called "subalterns." Interviews conducted by Ann Grodzins Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar in the local language are reproduced in English translation. The exercise is followed by a detailed analysis of the material that teases out the multiple nuances of each statement. Other materials, although used, have been given short shrift. The locale is a small chiefdom in the Ajmer-Merwara district, the twenty-seven villages of Sawar. The time period is the reign of the last maharaja, Vamsha Pradip Singh, which ended after thirty years in 1947, as well as the subsequent postcolonial years up to the present. . . .

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