Tribals and Dalits in Orissa : towards a social history of exclusion, c. 1800-1950 / Biswamoy Pati.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : maps (black and white).Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199094592 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Tribes -- India -- Odisha -- History | Dalits -- India -- Odisha -- History | Marginality, Social -- India -- Odisha -- History | Odisha (India) -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Odisha (India) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199489404DDC classification: 954.133 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This text examines diverse aspects of the social history of the marginalized sections of society in Orissa, focusing on the problems of colonialism and the way it impacted the lives of tribals, outcastes and dalits. It delineates how these socially excluded sections were terrorized and further impoverished by both the colonial government and the chiefs of the despotic princely states who worked in tandem with them. In course of six tightly argued chapters, Biswamoy Pati studies several key issues including 'colonial knowledge' systems which had a long afterlife, such as the stereotyping of tribals as violent and brutal and colonial constructions of the 'criminal tribe'.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text examines diverse aspects of the social history of the marginalized sections of society in Orissa, focusing on the problems of colonialism and the way it impacted the lives of tribals, outcastes and dalits. It delineates how these socially excluded sections were terrorized and further impoverished by both the colonial government and the chiefs of the despotic princely states who worked in tandem with them. In course of six tightly argued chapters, Biswamoy Pati studies several key issues including 'colonial knowledge' systems which had a long afterlife, such as the stereotyping of tribals as violent and brutal and colonial constructions of the 'criminal tribe'.
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