Adivasis in colonial India: survival, resistance, and negotiation/
edited by Biswamoy Pati
- New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2013.
- xii, 368 p. ; 23 cm.
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 -- -- 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 -- -- 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.