Freedomville : the story of a 21st-century slave revolt /

"A community of rock quarry miners in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India gave their tiny cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. But it hasn't always been identified by that auspicious moniker. The miners renamed their village in 2000, after they staged a revolt...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Murphy, Laura (Laura T.) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [New York] : [Columbia Global Reports], [2021]
Subjects:
Slave rebellions > India > Uttar Pradesh.
Miners > India > Uttar Pradesh.
Révoltes d'esclaves > Inde > Uttar Pradesh.
Mineurs > Inde > Uttar Pradesh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
Miners
Slave rebellions
India > Uttar Pradesh
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bound by history and debt
  • Gossip organizing
  • The fight for freedomville
  • Precarious freedom
  • The NGOification of revolution
  • All politics are local
  • Rock crushers and the infrastructureof a new India.

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