| Description |
1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Political Life of Memory -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- A Note on Subaltern Memory -- Emplacing the Self and the Method -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I Context and Theory -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Vignette: Birsa Munda and His Memory -- Anti-colonialism and Birsa Munda -- Memory and Birsa Munda -- Scope of the Book and Area of Contribution -- The Canon: Birsa Munda and His Brief Biography -- Historiography of the Movement |
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Background to the Book: Concepts and Context in Colonial India -- Adivasi: A New Political Vocabulary -- Contemporary Articulations of the Birsa Movement -- The Iconography of Birsa and the Spectre of Memory -- Jharkhand's Political Struggle -- Regional Parties and the Trope of Cultural Revivalism -- Theoretical Foundation of the Book -- Weaving Theory as Method -- Structure of the Book -- Notes -- Part II Historical Memory' -- Chapter 2 Claiming the Munda Raj from the Margins: Land, Missionaries and the Making of the Birsa Ulgulan in Chota Nagpur (1845-1900) |
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Searching for the 'Heathen Soul': Adivasis, Missions, and Their History in Chota Nagpur -- Heathen Souls: The Mission and Kols -- Mutiny and the Missionaries -- Kols, Missions and the Spectre of Cultural Imperialism -- Mission, School and English Education -- Mission, Political Awakening and Petitioning in the Raj -- Making of the Dharti Aba: Agrarian Crisis and Anti-colonialism -- Land Legislations, Struggles and the Political Life of Birsa -- The CNTA and the Bhuinhari Survey -- The Sardari Ladai and the Spectre of Surveys -- End of the Rebellion -- Summary -- Notes |
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Part III Ethnography of Memory, Objects and Resistance -- Chapter 3 Memories Set in Stone: Political Aesthetics and the Statue of Birsa Munda in Post-colonial Jharkhand -- Towards Material Memory Culture -- Mapping the Mammoth Memory: The Making of Birsa's Statues -- A Note on Statues -- Birsa and His Statue -- Architecture of Memory: Mammoth Statue, Regional Political Elite and Fieldnotes -- Nationalizing Memory: A Brief Background -- Narration and Design of the Statue -- Narrations of Memory: Shift in Symbolism -- Regimes of Historicity: Birsa as Memory and Heritage |
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Memory as Politics: Listening to the Voice of Resistance, Dayamani Barla -- Sarhul: A Cultural Description of the Political -- Birsa in Shackles: Casting Negative Images or Framing Historical Struggle -- When Birsa Came Home: The Statue in Ulihatu Village13 October 2018, Ulihatu Village -- Meaningful Disruptions and Memory: Dalits Icons and Statue Politics -- Time and Memory: Dalit Statues in Retrospect -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 4 'Burying the Dead, Creating the Past': The Making of Memorials, Stone Slabs and Birsa Munda in Jharkhand -- Commemoration: Theorizing the Past of the Present |
| Summary |
Situating Birsa Munda as the canon, the book demonstrates how political parties and civil societies mobilise and reproduce his memory |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Commemoration as Political Project: Stakeholders and Architecture |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009358583 |
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1009358588 |
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