Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:30:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Nitin P. Govil" <npg9565-AT-is.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: gossip



ranajit guha's _elementary aspects of peasant insurgency in colonial
india_ (delhi: oxford univ. press, 1983) has some pertinent sections on
both gossip and rumor as a modality of peasant resistance in the
"transmissions" chapter of the book.

nitin


On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Brian Roy Johnson wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>     I a Dalhousie graduate student researching gossip in Canadian
> literature.  So far I have written papers focussing on feminist
> reappropriations of gossip as a technique of resistance and I am currently
> working on the use of gossip by ethnic minorities.  Is anyone aware of any
> work that has been done regarding gossip in India?  I am trying to locate
> a book which deals specifically with political forms of gossip in India,
> but have stupidly lost the reference...
>     Thanks in advance.
> 
>     Brian Johnson
> 
> 
> 
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