Hybrid Histories
Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India
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Beskrivning
Explores the politics of wildness - a dimension of Indian history. The text suggests that wildness was variously affirmed by early-19th-century forest communities as a way of challenging upper caste values. With colonial rule this was marginalized, leading to a new identity, "adivasi".