Adivasis in colonial India: survival, resistance, and negotiation/ edited by Biswamoy Pati
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2013Description: xii, 368 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9788125040941Subject(s): Indigenous peoples | India DDC classification: 305.800954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 305.800954 PAT/A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P41566 |
I : 'Modern science', classification strategies, questions of identity and patriarchy. 1. Of apes and ancestors : evolutionary science and colonial ethnography / Meena Radhakrishna --
2. Colonial constructions of the 'tribe' in India : the case of Chotanagpur / Vinita Damodaran --
3. Rethinking adivasi identity : the Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act (1908) and its aftermath among the Hos of Singhbhum / Sanjukta Das Gupta --
4. Adivasis, gender and the 'evil eye' : the construction(s) of witches in colonial Chotanagpur / Shashank S. Sinha --
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II : Assertion and resistance. 5. Visibility through resistance : the Malangis and salt making in eighteenth century Bengal / Meena Bhargava --
6. From dispute to 'disturbance' : the 'Gond Disturbances' in late nineteenth century Bonai (Orissa) / Uwe Skoda --
7. Coolie strikes back : collective protest and action in the colonial tea plantations of Assam, 1880-1920 / Nitin Varma --
8. Unravelling the forms of 'Adivasi' organization and resistance in colonial India / Archana Prasad --
9. Survival as resistance : tribals in colonial Orissa / Biswamoy Pati --
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III : Medical colonialism and the adivasi healing systems. 10. Medical colonialism and the Andamanese / Satadru Sen --
11. Knowledge of the Bhils and their systems of healing / David Hardiman --
In lieu of an afterword : Mining projects and cultural genocide : colonial roots of present conflicts / Felix Padel.
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