Mapping histories: Many narratives of Tana pasts

Sangeeta Dasgupta
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Sangeeta Dasgupta: Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2016, vol. 53, issue 1, 99-129

Abstract: By locating the Tana Bhagats in the shifting terrains of forests and fields in Chota Nagpur, and by examining the hierarchies within the Oraon community, this paper suggests an alternate reading of adivasi protest in colonial India. It also revisits the relationship between the Congress and the adivasis. Finally, by counterpoising the colonial archive with Tana pamphlets and petitions, it analyses different narratives of Tana pasts in order to make sense of how histories and memories of adivasi protest are reworked in postcolonial times.

Keywords: adivasi; agrarian; archive; Chhotanagpur; Congress; forest; Gandhi; Oraons; Tana Bhagats (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0019464615619546

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