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Indigeneity, Landscape and History

Adivasi Self-fashioning in India

By: Asoka Kumar Sen

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Indigeneity, Landscape and History

Adivasi Self-fashioning in India

By: Asoka Kumar Sen

This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected historical moments and representations of being, becoming and belonging, it situates the content and complexities of Adivasi self-fashioning in contemporary times, and discusses constructions of selfhood, diaspora, homeland, environment and ecology, political structures, state, marginality, development, alienation and rights. Drawing on a range of historical sources – from recorded oral traditions and village histories to contemporary Adivasi self-narratives – the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology and social anthropology, tribal and indigenous studies and politics.

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1351611860

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Adivasi Self-fashioning in India

By: Asoka Kumar Sen

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Living Differently

By: Asoka Kumar Sen

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Living Differently

By: Asoka Kumar Sen

Living Differently is the story of a septuagenarian former professor and historian, Prateep Sen, who lives in his parental home in Chaibasa, a small township in Jharkhand, with his ailing mother and Indu, his wife. Prateep is on the threshold of a new voyage from the world of facts, his earlier quest as a teacher and researcher, to the world of fiction. Fresh and raw in this new field, he does not know what story he should tell and how. A broad plot finally emerges in his mind. As he dabbles further, the storyline gradually unfolds in the form of a novelette. In ten chapters, the book narrates the story of the indomitable way three old people face an unprecedented challenge that the sudden outburst of the COVID 19 pandemic has brought in and around them. Living Differently is therefore as much a self-story as it is a juxtaposition of the agonies and ecstasies of the people around and away from him. It tells how three old people invent a new life pattern, being confined within the four walls of their house, and struggle and explore the joys of living in an unfamiliar and exciting virtual world and amongst their close ones, living many thousand miles away. In this way, Prateep’s dialogues lend a new meaning to life and make living more worthwhile than being steeped into despondency in the midst of affliction.

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Notion Press

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9798886063158

The Making of a Village

The Dynamics of Adivasi Rural Life in India

By: Asoka Kumar Sen

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The Making of a Village

The Dynamics of Adivasi Rural Life in India

By: Asoka Kumar Sen

The Making of a Village examines the social and cultural life of indigenous peoples in India. It unfolds intimate aspects of Adivasi history such as the birth of a village, its demographic formation, forging of social relations, in- and out-migration, and the dialectics of the village as a socio-physical space during precolonial and colonial periods. Drawing on oral, archival and empirical data from eastern India, it highlights the interconnected themes of inflection of identity; the change of the Adivasis from historic agents to colonial subjects and their arcadia to a servile landscape; and the indigenous notion of state. It also initiates a dialogue between the past and present to bring into sharp relief ideas of village community, indigeneity, migration, governance, colonialism, agency, subjecthood, rural change, environment and ecology. Redefining the study of rural sociology in South Asia, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, politics, development studies, sociology, social and cultural anthropology, Adivasi and indigenous studies, and South Asian studies.

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The Dynamics of Adivasi Rural Life in India

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The Dynamics of Adivasi Rural Life in India

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From Village Elder to British Judge

Custom, Customary Law, and Tribal Society

By: Asoka Kumar Sen

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Custom, Customary Law, and Tribal Society

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Examines the definition and redefinition of customary law in the context of the adivasis of Jharkhand during pre-colonial and colonial times.

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8125045570

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Indigeneity, Landscape and History

Indigeneity, Landscape and History

Indigeneity, Landscape and History

Indigeneity, Landscape and History

Living Differently

Living Differently

The Making of a Village

The Making of a Village

The Making of a Village

The Making of a Village

From Village Elder to British Judge

From Village Elder to British Judge

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