Tribals and Dalits in Orissa
Towards a Social History of Exclusion, c. 1800–1950
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08/11/2018
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240 pages
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9780199489404
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08/11/2018
Hardback
240 pages
Biswamoy Pati
Biswamoy Pati’s posthumous volume on the lives of the tribals and dalits/outcastes in Orissa, from c. 1800 to 1950, shows how such communities were further impoverished by both colonial government policies and the chiefs of the despotic princely states.
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Biswamoy Pati
Description
Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic survival strategies of these groups are often overlooked in research. The fact that excluded groups have managed to survive has, hidden right beneath the surface, a whole range of complexities, while also demonstrating their ability to resist dominant social orders.
Biswamoy Pati’s posthumous volume on the lives of the tribals and dalits/outcastes in Orissa, from c. 1800 to 1950, shows how such communities were further impoverished by both colonial government policies and the chiefs of the despotic princely states. Colonial knowledge systems, constructions of the ‘criminal tribe’, and agrarian settlements affected tribals and dalits crucially. These marginalized groups were connected with the national movement. However, their inherited problems remained unresolved even after Independence. Examining these and several other issues such as adivasi strategies of resistance, indigenous systems of health and medicine, the colonial ‘medical gaze’, conversion (to Hinduism), the fluidities of caste formation, as well as the development of colonial capitalism and urbanization, the author presents a broader view of their struggle and endurance.
About the Author
Biswamoy Pati (1955–2017) taught modern Indian history at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. Over the years he published extensively and received numerous honours and awards, the last of them being a senior fellowship at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (2015–17)
Biswamoy Pati
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Map 1. Orissa: Provinces
Map 2. Princely States of Orissa
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
Alternative Visions: Communists and the State People’s Movement, Nilgiri 1937–48
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Biswamoy Pati
Features
- A posthumous work of Dr. Pati, this is an important work of adivasi studies, social history, and history of caste.
- 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'.
Biswamoy Pati
Description
Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic survival strategies of these groups are often overlooked in research. The fact that excluded groups have managed to survive has, hidden right beneath the surface, a whole range of complexities, while also demonstrating their ability to resist dominant social orders.
Biswamoy Pati’s posthumous volume on the lives of the tribals and dalits/outcastes in Orissa, from c. 1800 to 1950, shows how such communities were further impoverished by both colonial government policies and the chiefs of the despotic princely states. Colonial knowledge systems, constructions of the ‘criminal tribe’, and agrarian settlements affected tribals and dalits crucially. These marginalized groups were connected with the national movement. However, their inherited problems remained unresolved even after Independence. Examining these and several other issues such as adivasi strategies of resistance, indigenous systems of health and medicine, the colonial ‘medical gaze’, conversion (to Hinduism), the fluidities of caste formation, as well as the development of colonial capitalism and urbanization, the author presents a broader view of their struggle and endurance.
About the Author
Biswamoy Pati (1955–2017) taught modern Indian history at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. Over the years he published extensively and received numerous honours and awards, the last of them being a senior fellowship at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (2015–17)
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Map 1. Orissa: Provinces
Map 2. Princely States of Orissa
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
Alternative Visions: Communists and the State People’s Movement, Nilgiri 1937–48
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
