Asoka Kumar Sen

Gebundenes Buch

Indigeneity, Landscape and History

Adivasi Self-fashioning in India

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Asoka Kumar Sen taught history at Tata College, Chaibasa, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, and retired as a professor (1965-2002). He is presently an independent researcher of tribal history and editor of the Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies. He was awarded a brief fellowship at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi, India. He also worked as a researcher for Sussex University, UK, on the British Academy project entitled 'The East India Company and the Natural World: Environment, Innovation and Ideas at the Core of the British Empire'. His published works include The Educated Middle Class and Indian Nationalism (1988); Bengali Intelligentsia and Popular Uprisings 1855-73 (1992); Wilkinson's Rules, Context, Content and Ramifications (edited, 1999); Representing Tribe: The Ho of Singhbhum during Colonial Rule (2011); and From Village Elder to British Judge: Custom, Customary Law and Tribal Society (2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138036420
• ISBN-10: 1138036420
• Artikelnr.: 48887169