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The Political Life of Memory

Birsa Munda in Contemporary India

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Gebonden, 320 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2023
ISBN13: 9781009337908
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This book examines the representation of Birsa's political life, memory politics and the making of anticolonialism in contemporary Jharkhand. It offers contrasting features of political imaginations deployed in developing memorial landscapes. Framing of Birsa in the heroic narrative through a grand scale of memorialisation, often in the form of the built environment, curates a selective version. This isolates the scope of elaborating his political ideas outside the confines of atypical historical records and their relevance in the contemporary context. The book argues that everyday politics through affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities. It shows how such symbolic sites are often strategically placed and politically motivated to inscribe ideologies. This process outlines how the state and Adivasi use memory as a political tool to lay claims to the past of the Birsa Movement.

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ISBN13:9781009337908
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:320

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Abbreviations; Glossary of Hindi Terms; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Claiming the Munda Raj from the Margins: Land, Missionaries, and the Making of Birsa Ulgulan in Chota Nagpur (1845–1900); 3. Memories Set in Stone: Political Aesthetics and the Statue of Birsa Munda in Postcolonial Jharkhand; 4. 'Burying the Dead, Creating the Past': The Making of Memorials, Stone Slabs and Birsa in Jharkhand; 5. Echoes from the Graveyard: Pathalgadi, Birsaites and the Landscape of Memory; 6. Conclusion; Manifesto: Script for the Counter-memorial; Manifesto: Pathways to Anticolonialism, and Thinking about Subaltern Present Past; Appendix; Primary Sources; Published Sources.

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