The Unrest Axle

The Unrest Axle PDF Author: Gautam Kumar Bera
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183241458
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The Unrest Axle

The Unrest Axle PDF Author: Gautam Kumar Bera
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183241458
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The Land of Fourteen Gods

The Land of Fourteen Gods PDF Author: Gautam Kumar Bera
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183243339
Category : Riang (South Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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On social life and customs of Riang South Asian people; a study.

The Mortal God

The Mortal God PDF Author: Milinda Banerjee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316996387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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The Mortal God is a study in intellectual history which uncovers how actors in colonial India imagined various figures of human, divine, and messianic rulers to battle over the nature and locus of sovereignty. It studies British and Indian political-intellectual elites as well as South Asian peasant activists, giving particular attention to Bengal, including the associated princely states of Cooch Behar and Tripura. Global intellectual history approaches are deployed to place India within wider trajectories of royal nationhood that unfolded across contemporaneous Europe and Asia. The book intervenes within theoretical debates about sovereignty and political theology, and offers novel arguments about decolonizing and subalternizing sovereignty.

The Ho: Living in a World of Plenty

The Ho: Living in a World of Plenty PDF Author: Eva Reichel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110666197
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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The book is set in the anthropologically much-neglected multi-ethnic interior of Highland Middle India. It is the result of fieldwork done over a period of more than a decade among the Ho, an indigenous community of approximately one million people, who have shared cultural norms and the space of the hilly region of the Chota Nagpur Plateau with other aboriginal (adivasi) and artisan communities for ages. The book explores the structured tapestry of Ho people’s relations and interrelatedness within their culture-specific sociocosmic universe ensuring their social reproduction in the present and affording them the means for and the awareness of living in a world of plenty. This world of abundance – with the Ho as its conceptual centre – includes the Ho’s dead, their complex spirit world and supreme deity, and their tribal and nontribal fellow humans, and it manifests itself in manifold facets of their lives: socially, ritually, economically, and linguistically. "This is an important piece of work. The ethnographic details in it are invaluable. The fieldwork is superb. What comes across so magnificently is that unique quality of the author's human and emotional contact and shared understanding with the people." MICHAEL YORKE: University College, London; Upside Films

Politics Of Separatism

Politics Of Separatism PDF Author: Dr. Nandini Basistha
Publisher: K.K. Publications
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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This book tries to theorize the evolution of identity politics leading to separatist mentalities in India. Constructed ideas of identity have been posing a threat to humanity in the name of separatism. It is now one of the biggest threats to the Indian nation-building process. The Indian government has invested crores of rupees to secure the unity of India. In spite of that, many parts of India are now demanding separate statehood or sovereign nation-state. Demands vary according to the motif, mode and magnitude. But behind every demand for full or partial political autonomy, their remains some unequal treatment which occurs in the eco-socio-political sphere and separatist movements often take place. This Study revolves around two movements led by Rajbanshis and Gorkhas in the Northern part of West Bengal. In the tiny and strategically important North Bengal region, numerous movements are ongoing for getting separate statehood, some notables of which are 'Gorkhaland', 'Kamtapur', and 'Greater Cooch Bihar' movements. Why and how this area is facing this kind of activism is the main thrust of this study. With statistical data and historical references, the authenticity of the claim of 'marginalization' tried to validate. The question of Bengali hegemony and backwardness of North Bengal is also discussed elaborately. This book thus can be an ideal reference copy for the social scientists as well as administrative officials working in/on North Bengal/Northeast India/ ethno-regional separatist movements. This book covers the hundred-year history of movements of two important ethnic groups (Rajbanshis and Gorkhas) of India and touched three most crucial issues–viz. identity, marginality and separatism.

In the Lagoons of the Gangetic Delta

In the Lagoons of the Gangetic Delta PDF Author: Gautam Kumar Bera
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183243438
Category : Biosphere reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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On the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India; contributed articles.

Ethnography of a Denotified Tribe

Ethnography of a Denotified Tribe PDF Author: J. J. Roy Burman
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183243452
Category : Lambadi (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Tribe, Space and Mobilisation

Tribe, Space and Mobilisation PDF Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811900590
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 467

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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.

The Political Life of Memory

The Political Life of Memory PDF Author: Rahul Ranjan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009337904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Situating Birsa Munda as the canon, the book demonstrates how political parties and civil societies mobilise and reproduce his memory.

Contemporary Studies in Anthropology

Contemporary Studies in Anthropology PDF Author: D. C. Nanjunda
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183243322
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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With reference to Karnataka, India.