Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-125).
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.
Summary:
"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 that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who held their families in debt bondage for generations. Non-profits celebrated their tenacity; a film promoted their non-violent grassroots efforts; their success inspired other villages to fight for their own freedom. But the complex story of Freedomville, the murder that these revolutionaries nearly got away with, and the short-lived freedom its inhabitants created for themselves there has not yet been told"-- Provided by publisher.
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