ABSTRACT
Peasant resistance typically took multiple forms in response to local conditions and the degree of economic and political coercion. Kha peasant response to market penetration was even less equivocal. Aside from active and passive resistance, peasant victims of a modern world restructuring were also want to reinvoke or restore a pre-capitalist past by way of the magical invocation of traditional deities. "Moral Economists", Popkin writes, assume that the peasant is anti-market, that peasant welfare depends upon close corporate villages so common in pre-capitalist society. While conventional scholarship has portrayed the colonial era as "peaceful" in reality, rebellion stirred all the major ethnic groups in Laos at various points between 1893 and 1954. According to Jean Jacques Dauplay, the leading colonial protagonist in the repression of the ethnic minority rebellions in southern Laos and who took up official appointment as the French Administrator of Saravane in January 1906.
