Nandini Sundar

Subalterns and Sovereigns

An Anthropological History of Bastar (1854-2006)

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Produktbeschreibung

The book provides an anthropological history of Bastar which now forms the heart of the new state of Chattisgarh. Focusing on the period between 1854-2006, it traces the genealogy of the state through the dialectics of administrative intervention and popular resistance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780195697049
• ISBN-10: 0195697049
• Artikelnr.: 25525643

Autorenporträt

Nandini Sundar is a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Prologue
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Photographs
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Recreated pasts
1: Village Histories in south Bastar
2: The Dialectics of Dussehra: Raja and Praja in the Bastar Polity
Rebellious Pasts
3: We are Yours, but the Land is Ours: Kingship Contested
4: How did the Land become so Bitter?
5: In Search of Gunda Dhur: The Bhumkal of 1910
6: The Tribal Question, 19271950
7: The Congress and the King
8: The Baba and the Bhagats, Uncertain Futures
Conclusion
9: Afterword
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index