UID:
almafu_9961002198102883
Format:
1 online resource (xxx, 296pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-009-35858-8
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1-009-33792-0
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2023).
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Claiming the Munda Raj from the Margins : Land, Missionaries and the Making of the Birsa Ulgulan in Chota Nagpur (1845-1900) -- Memories Set in Stone : Political Aesthetics and the Statue of Birsa Munda in Post-colonial Jharkhand -- 'Burying the Dead, Creating the Past' : The Making of Memorials, Stone Slabs and Birsa Munda in Jharkhand -- Echoes from the Graveyard : Pathalgadi, Birsaites and the Landscape of Memory.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009337908
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009337922
