| Description |
1 online resource (194 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Tripura's journey from monarchy to democracy -- Tripura: The journey from a princely state to a democracy -- Tribes in India and Tripura's development distinctiveness -- Tripura's tribal movement: Critiquing the stereotype of tribes in India -- Role of the state -- About the book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Princely Tripura: Absolutist monarchy, tribal heterogeneity, and emergence of public action -- British colonialism and the north-east |
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Princely states and the unique position of Tripura monarchy -- Absolutist monarchy, exploitation, and socio-economic heterogeneity within tribes -- Public action in north-east and its emergence in Tripura -- Indian freedom movement and the beginning of political activity in princely Tripura -- The Second World War and repression and reforms -- Price rice and food scarcity in the late 1930s and early 1940s -- Formation of organisations from the 1930s and public action -- The tumult: Administrative changes, state repression and formation of GMP |
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The Regency council, Dewani rule, and merger with India -- Struggle of the TRPM against proposed constitutional reforms and Dewani rule -- The repression on the TRPM, JSS, and the tribal people -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Ganamukti Parishad's Revolt of 1948-1951 -- Formation of the GMP and mobilisation -- Locating the GMP revolt -- Agrarian roots and political conditions -- Initial mobilisation: Tribal and non-tribal peasants -- The agrarian agenda of the GMP and mobilisation of peasantry -- The killing of peasants at Golaghati -- Revisiting the tribe-peasant debate |
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Agrarian programme: Ending exploitation and providing relief -- Struggle against moneylenders and determining the rate of dadan -- Deciding the price of rice and the rate of sub-leasing of land, ploughs, and oxen -- Decisions regarding land -- Ensuring daily wage -- Establishing granaries -- Class dimension of the GMP revolt -- The rally of 15 August 1948 and Golaghati killing in October 1948: Shaping the GMP's class understanding -- Internal debate -- Combining armed resistance struggle with socio-cultural reforms -- State repression and resistance at Champahour |
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Tribal women's resistance against titun at Padmabil -- Formation of the parallel government -- Socio-cultural reforms: Challenging regressive and obscure practices -- GMP revolt: Resistance struggle minus politics of killing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Immigration, land question, and politics -- Land situation in princely Tripura -- Immigration, tribal land, role of state, and development of landed class among Tripura tribes -- Impact on tribal people: Land alienation and indebtedness |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Status of refugees, class factor in land alienation of tribals, and development of class relations among Tripura tribes |
| Subject |
Tribes -- India -- Tripura
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Indigenous peoples -- India -- Tripura
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Peasants -- India -- Tripura
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Land tenure -- India -- Tripura
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| SUBJECT |
Tripura (India) -- Scheduled tribes
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Tripura (India) -- Ethnic relations
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Tripura (India) -- Politics and government
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003836469 |
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1003836461 |
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