South Asia from the margins : Echoes of Orissa, 1800â#x80 ; #x93 ; 2000 /

This book aims to sketch the diversities of South Asian social history, focusing on Orissa. It highlights the problems of colonialism and its impact upon the lives of the colonised, even as it details the manner in which the internal order of exploitation worked. Based on archival and rare, hitherto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pati, Biswamoy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018.
Manchester [England] : Manchester University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1800-1999
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Odisha (India) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Odisha (India) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Odisha (India) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Odisha (India) > Social conditions > 19th century.
India > Odisha
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Environment and social history : Kalahandi, c.1800-1950
  • Hegemony, shifting identities and conversions
  • Negotiating Dharma Pinnu : towards a social history of smallpox in colonial Orissa
  • 'Religion' and social 'subversion' : re-examining popular movements
  • Interrogating stereotypes : exploring the Orissan princely states
  • Storm over Malkangiri : Laxman Naiko's revolt, 1942
  • Orissa and the making of the Nehruvian nation state, 1946-52
  • 'Living' with dowry : oral testimonies of gender oppression.

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