Tribals and Dalits in Orissa

Towards a Social History of Exclusion, c. 1800-1950

Biswamoy Pati (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2018
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-948940-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines diverse aspects of the social history of the tribals and dalits/outcastes in Orissa. It delineates how the socially excluded sections were further impoverished by both colonial government policies and the chiefs of the despotic princely states who worked in tandem with the colonizers.

In the book, Biswamoy Pati studied several key issues including 'colonial knowledge' systems, the stereotyping of tribals as violent and brutal, and colonial constructions of the 'criminal tribe'. Additionally examined are colonial agrarian settlements, adivasi strategies of resistance, (including uprisings); indigenous systems of health and medicine; the colonial 'medical gaze;' conversion (to Hinduism); fluidities of caste formations in the nineteenth century; the appropriation by princely rulers of adivasi deities and healing methods; the rituals of legitimacy adopted by these rulers; as well as the development of colonial capitalism and urbanization. Also explored are the connections between marginalized groups and the national movement, and the way these inherited problems have remained unresolved after Independence.

Drawing upon archival and rare sources, this important book would interest the general reader, besides students of history, social anthropology, political sociology, cultural studies, dalit studies, social exclusion, and the social history of medicine. It would also attract NGOs and planners of public policy.

Biswamoy Pati taught Modern Indian History at the Department of History, University of Delhi. Over the years, he received numerous Honours, awards and Fellowships, the last of them being a Senior Fellowship at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (2015-2017). He published extensively in terms of books, scholarly journals and edited collections. These include his monographs: Resisting Domination (1993), Situating Social History (2001), Identity, Hegemony, Resistance (2003), and South Asia From the Margins (2012). His edited collections include the landmark Health, Medicine and Empire (2001), besides India's Princely States (2007), The Rebellion of 1857 (2007) and The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India (2012). His latest volumes include Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India (2018) and the co-authored volume Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States (2018). Dr Pati also occasionally wrote a Guest Column for The Telegraph, Bhubaneswar. He tragically passed away in June 2017.

List of Tables
Preface by Dr. Indrani Sen
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

1. Invisibility, Social Exclusion, Survival: Tribals and the Untouchables/Dalits in Orissa

2.The Rhythms of Change and Devastation: Colonial Capitalism and the World of the Socially Excluded, c.1800-1920

3.The Tribals and Outcastes Hit Back: Survival as Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

4.Health Matters: Exploring the World of the Tribals and Outcastes/ Dalits

5.Rituals of Legitimacy: Caste /Hegemony/Counter-Hegemony, c.1800-1940

6.Alternative Visions : The Communist and the State People's Movements, Nilgiri, 1937-48

Epilogue
Select Bibliography
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	08.03.2019
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 222 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie
ISBN-10	0-19-948940-8 / 0199489408
ISBN-13	978-0-19-948940-4 / 9780199489404
Zustand	Neuware