Tribe, Space and Mobilisation: Colonial Dynamics and Post-Colonial Dilemma in Tribal Studies

ISBN-13: 9789811900617 / Angielski

Maguni Charan Behera

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This book presents multidisciplinary critical engagement in Tribe-British relations, the interfacing between colonial mind and tribal worldview, and some of their contemporary implications to conceptualise tribal space and mobilisation at national, regional, and native levels.  The approach, argument, and theoretical underpinnings introduce a new perspective dimension of enquiry in tribal studies and enlarge its scope as a distinct academic discipline.  It provides theoretical and methodological insights and an innovative analytical frame for a grand intellectual engagement beyond the boundary of conventional disciplines but within the interactive matrix of India’s social, cultural, political, religious, and economic space. The book is a pioneering work in the emerging field of tribal studies and a vital reference point for students and academics and non-academics alike who are engaged in tribal issues.

Spis treści

1. Tribe, Space and Mobilisation:  Colonial and Post Colonial 

Interface in Tribal Studies

Maguni Charan Behera  

 Part I Being Prudent

2. Sherdukpen – British Relations: A Study

Nani Tamang Jose    ByomakeshTripathy

3. Changing Landscape and Mindscape:  Impact of British Colonization on the Badagas – A Study of Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji Blooms

B. Cauveri & A. Poongodi

4. ‘From Africa’ to ‘Of India’: Siddis through Colonial Period

Mohammad Nasir Ahmad

Part II Informal and Formal Interface

5. State and Tribal Land Alienation in Jharkhand: Following 

Colonial Footprints?

Ashish Aman Sinha, Hari Charan Behera  & Ajit Kumar Behura   

6. Tribal people, Forest Ecology and Colonial rule  in Central India: 

A Retrospective Look

Nilakantha Panigrahi  & Subhandu Patra

7. The Idea of Self Governance and Tribal  Revolts in Colonial Period

Ashok Nimesh

8. The North East India: Colonial Construct of Identity

Diganta Hatiboruah 

Part III  Margins of History

9. Participation of Tribes of Undivided Koraput District of Odisha in 

India’s Freedom Movement 

Bijaya Kumar Misra

10 The Unwritten Chapters of Anglo-Kurichiya Battles and Malabar 

Tribal Struggles

Indu V. Menon

Part IV Deracination and Reordering

11 Colonial Representation of Livelihoods of India’s Service Nomads – 

A Case of the Waghri community

Dipti Bapat

12 The Denotified and Nomadic Communities and the Challenges to 

Substantive Citizenship

Sonal Baxi

13 Colonial impact on Pastoral Nomads and Caravan Traders in India: 

The Raika and the Banjara 

Bikku

Part V Exclusionary Inclusion

14 Missionaries and Education among the Kandhas of Kandhamal 

under Colonial Rule

Sadananda Nayak

15 Chaibasa School and Beyond: Educating the Hos of Kolhan Government 

Estate in Singhbhum (1841-68) 

Sanjay Nath

16 Evangelizing the Nagas in the second half of the 19th and First 

half of the 20th century:  Missionary encounter and cultural disarming

Tuisem Ngakang

17 Christianity and Indigenous Cosmology in Gopinath Mohanty’s Dadibudha

Sarat Kumar Jena &Debi Prasanna Pattanayak 

Part VI Exploitation and Representation

17 Early Colonialism and Modernity in British Odisha: Representation of 

‘Tribe’ and ‘State’ in Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja

Sarat Kumar Jena

18 Understanding Socio-economic subjugation by the British in 

Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud

Miazi Hazam

Part VII Parallel Space

19 Reform and Resistance for Freedom:  Tribes against 

the British Rule in India

M.C.Behera & Dinesh  Narayan Verma

20 Hari Ram Meena’s When Arrows were Heated Up: A Study 

of triangular relations among Bhils, Princely States and the British

Santosh Kumar Sonker

21 Sapha Hor Movement in Santal Parganas (1870-1871): 

 Colonial Legacy and Its Contemporary Implications

Dinesh Narayan Verma

22 Making Myth a History: A Colonial Reference in Creation of 

Tribal Hero Tilka Manjhi (1750-1784 ?)

Dinesh Narayan Verma

O autorze

Maguni Charan Behera, M. A., Ph.D. (Economics) from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, has been pursuing researches on tribal studies and rural economics from mid-1980s. He has authored/edited/co-edited more than 35 volumes on socio-economic and cultural life of tribal and rural people from theoretical and empirical perspectives. To his credit, he has more than sixty research papers on national and international topics published in various national and international journals. He has presented about sixty-five papers in national and international seminars/conferences in the country and abroad. He is a member of many professional bodies. Dr. Behera was a professor of Indigenous Culture Studies and Dean School of Cultural Studies, Central University of Jharkhand, before he joined as a director of Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India.