Asoka Kumar Sen

The Making of a Village (eBook, PDF)

The Dynamics of Adivasi Rural Life in India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book 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, and the dialectics of village as a socio-physical space during pre-colonial and colonial periods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000093889
• Artikelnr.: 59612354

Autorenporträt

Asoka Kumar Sen taught history from 1965 to 2002 at Tata College, Chaibasa, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, and retired as a professor. He is presently an independent researcher of Adivasi 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 the University of Sussex, 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), From Village Elder to British Judge: Custom, Customary Law and Tribal Society (2012) and Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Telling the Story: Text and Beyond Text 3. Birth of a
Village 4. Weaving the Demographic Pattern 5. Story of In- and
Out-Migration 6. Governance of a Village 7. The Changing Rural Landscape 8.
Concluding Remarks

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1. Introduction 2. Telling the Story: Text and Beyond Text 3. Birth of a Village 4. Weaving the Demographic Pattern 5. Story of In- and Out-Migration 6. Governance of a Village 7. The Changing Rural Landscape 8. Concluding Remarks