Tribe, Space and Mobilisation

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.

Auteur
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.

Contenu
1.Tribe, Space and Mobilisation: Colonial and Post Colonial Interface in Tribal StudiesMaguni Charan Behera
Part I Being Prudent
2.Sherdukpen British Relations: A StudyNani Tamang Jose ByomakeshTripathy3.Changing Landscape and Mindscape: Impact of British Colonization on the Badagas A Study of Rajam Krishnan's When the Kurinji BloomsB. Cauveri & A. Poongodi4.'From Africa' to 'Of India': Siddis through Colonial PeriodMohammad 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 LookNilakantha Panigrahi & Subhandu Patra7.The Idea of Self Governance and Tribal Revolts in Colonial PeriodAshok Nimesh8.The North East India: Colonial Construct of IdentityDiganta Hatiboruah
Part III Margins of History
9.Participation of Tribes of Undivided Koraput District of Odisha in India's Freedom Movement Bijaya Kumar Misra10The Unwritten Chapters of Anglo-Kurichiya Battles and Malabar Tribal StrugglesIndu V. Menon
Part IVDeracination and Reordering
11Colonial Representation of Livelihoods of India's Service Nomads A Case of the Waghri communityDipti Bapat12The Denotified and Nomadic Communities and the Challenges to Substantive CitizenshipSonal Baxi
13Colonial impact on Pastoral Nomads and Caravan Traders in India: The Raika and the Banjara Bikku
Part V Exclusionary Inclusion
14Missionaries and Education among the Kandhas of Kandhamal under Colonial RuleSadananda Nayak15Chaibasa School and Beyond: Educating the Hos of Kolhan Government Estate in Singhbhum (1841-68) Sanjay Nath16Evangelizing the Nagas in the second half of the 19th and First half of the 20th century: Missionary encounter and cultural disarmingTuisem Ngakang17Christianity and Indigenous Cosmology in Gopinath Mohanty's DadibudhaSarat Kumar Jena &Debi Prasanna Pattanayak
Part VI Exploitation and Representation
17Early Colonialism and Modernity in British Odisha: Representation of 'Tribe' and 'State' in Gopinath Mohanty's ParajaSarat Kumar Jena18Understanding Socio-economic subjugation by the British in Mulk Raj Anand's Two Leaves and a BudMiazi Hazam
Part VII Parallel Space
19Reform and Resistance for Freedom: Tribes against the British Rule in IndiaM.C.Behera & Dinesh Narayan Verma20Hari Ram Meena's When Arrows were Heated Up: A Study of triangular relations among Bhils, Princely States and the BritishSantosh Kumar Sonker21Sapha Hor Movement in Santal Parganas (1870-1871): Colonial Legacy and Its Contemporary ImplicationsDinesh Narayan Verma&lt...