Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Inverted Pyramid

Refashioning Adivasi History in Middle India

Av Asoka Kumar Sen, Anjana Singh

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This book presents an innovative methodological approach to understanding Adivasi history and contemporary life in Middle India. Drawing on fieldwork and local resources that highlight indigenous voices, the authors challenge the persistent scholarly notion inherited from colonial ethnography that Adivasis are peoples without history or perpetual subalterns. By confining Adivasi narratives within pan-Indian, colonial, and missionary frameworks, much existing scholarship has inadvertently overlooked the autonomy and historical agency of Adivasi communities. Drawing on diverse and locally grounded sources including colonial-era Ho vocabulary, district archives, chapbooks, local journals, NGO reports, folk songs, religio-cultural organizations, and social media, this volume retrieves previously unexplored data. Crucially, the work is informed by decades of sustained engagement with knowledgeable Adivasi community members. This volume uncovers little-known details about Adivasis during the pre-colonial period and their dynamic engagement with colonial and post-colonial historical forces, substantiating their claim as historical agents who have maintained autonomy of thought and action over centuries.This nuanced study will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in modern Indian history, sociology, social anthropology, Adivasi and Indigenous studies, politics, and South Asian studies.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2027-03-09
Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 392
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781032983578

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Asoka Kumar Sen is a former Professor of History; Asoka Kumar Sen is a Chaibasa-based Independent Researcher of Adivasi History and Editor of the online Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies. He has authored The Educated Middle Class and Indian Nationalism (1988); Bengali Intelligentsia and Popular Uprisings 1855-73 (1992); Wilkinson’s Rules, Context, Content and Ramifications (ed) (1999); Representing Tribe: The Ho of Singhbhum during Colonial Rule (2011); From Village Elder to British Judge: Custom, Customary Law and Tribal Society (2012); Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India (2018); The Making of a Village: The Dynamics of Adivasi Rural Life in India ( 2021).Anjana Singh teaches history at Ranchi University and is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies. She has co-edited, Threads of Indigeneity in Central India: Essays on Adivasi History and Politics, (Springer Nature, 2026) with Joseph Bara. Her articles have appeared in The International Journal of Human Rights (2020), Economic and Political Weekly (2019), Journal of,Adivasi and Indigenous Studies (2017, 2018, 2021). She has contributed book chapters to Rekha Pande eds. Gender and History (Rawat publications 2018), India’s Scheduled Areas: Untangling Governance, Law and Politics (Routledge, 2020); At the Crossroads of Rights: Forest Struggles and Human Rights in Postcolonial India (Routledge, 2022); Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism: Ecology, Families, Governance (Routledge, 2022) and The Routledge Handbook of Tribe and Religions in India: Contemporary Readings on Spirituality, Belief and Identity (2025).

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