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Environment ethnicity and history in Chotanagpur India 1850-1970

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posted on 2023-06-08, 07:25 authored by Vinita DamodaranVinita Damodaran
The paper has attempted to show the ways in which the recurring image of an older landscape has served as a powerful metaphor in Chotanagpur's resurgence. It directly fuelled protect movements in the late nineteenth century and was part of a new emotive language as a modern political idioom can to be developed by the Jharkhand parties in the twentieth century. The cultural revival signalled by the Janata Mukti Morcha in the 1970s found expression in the festival of the sacred grove which was to become one of the most important markers of Chotanagpuri identity and the site where larger and more powerful hegemonies were constituted, contested and transformed. The paper is also an illustration of the more general problem of historical research and demonstrates the ways in which a post-modern analysis of cultural categories such as ethnicity can be related to the old realities of power politics.

History

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  • Published

Journal

Environment and History

ISSN

0967-3407

Publisher

White Horse Press

Issue

3

Volume

3

Page range

273-298

ISBN

0967-3407

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  • History Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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