The Making of a Village: The Dynamics of Adivasi Rural Life in India - Hardcover

Sen, Asoka Kumar

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ISBN 10: 036737403X ISBN 13: 9780367374037

Verlag: Routledge India, 2020

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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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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).

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• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 036737403X
• ISBN 13: 9780367374037
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
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