Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
Part 1: Peasant mobilization;
1. Baba Ram Chandra and peasant upsurge in Oudh, 1920-2021;
2. The Ramcharitmanas as a radical text: Baba Ram Chandra in Oudh, 1920-1950;
3. Ritualism to radical social reality: Some reflections on the innovative uses of vedic literature on the eve of 1942: Baba Ram Chandra in Oudh;
4. Rural women in Oudh, 1917-1947: Baba Ram Chandra and the women's question;

Part 2: The peasants of congress;
5. Peasant' perception of Gandhi and his programme: Oudh, 1920-1922;
6. Congress-peasant relationship inthe late 1930s;
7. Peasants, congress and the strugge for freedom: 1917-1939;
8. Ideology, congress and peasants in 1930s: Class adjustment or submission?
9. Big business and the peasantry;

Part 3: Communalism?
10. Dominant-Grassroots dichotomy in Hindu-Muslim relations: A study of political mobilization in colonial and post-colonial India:
Index.