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...Projit Bihari Mukharji Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory . By Sangeeta Dasgupta . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2022 . xvii, 345 pp. ISBN: 9780190127916 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Reordering Adivasi Worlds is a world...

...Douglas Haynes The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India . By David Hardiman . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1987 . x , 248 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 653 demand shaped and enlarged zones...

... the problem, and look at it from angles that have often been underplayed" (p. 228). So argues Susana B. C. Devalle in this insightful new study of adivasi communities in the Jharkhand region of South Bihar. Devalle takes as her starting point the concept of ethnicity itself, claiming that the anthropological...

... of Bihar, Bengal, Orissa, and Madhya Pradesh, but unified by a shared history of struggle between the adivasis (tribals) and caste communities over land and its management. The authors focus on the ways that gender relations among the adivasi groups (who belong to several different named communities...

... STUDIES use. The chapters themselves lump together historical periods and adivasi groups that may be widely separate in space and time, making it hard to figure out the causal links between historical events, local cultural systems, and economic and political change at the local level. Do adivasis from...

.... RICHARDS Duke University The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India. By DAVID H A R DIMAN. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. x, 248 pp. $19.95. Movements of adivasis ("tribal" peoples) have possessed a special attraction for radical historians of South Asia, in part because...

.... Later, in the 1930s, they abandoned the Gandhian approach when the Mahatma's followers proved too contemptuous of adivasi culture and when socialist leaders associated with the Kisan Sabha began to take up their concerns. Second, Hardiman disputes M. N. Srinivas's Sanskritization model, which has viewed...

... in which there is great economic disparity between landless adivasi (tribal) agricultural laborers and rich peasants, who are caste Hindus. By contrast, there is little protest in a village in which agricultural laborers are ethnically divided, as well as in a 588 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES village which...

... how the campaign for Jharkhand's autonomy evolved from arguments based on population majority to a rhetoric that highlighted exploitation of tribal people by “outsiders,” and how the myth of the tribe was being produced at a time when class differentiation within the region's adivasi community...

... of local Adivasi leaders is also pertinently emphasized, the nonpolitical agenda of a service-oriented organization like the VKA making the recruitment work of the Sangh Parivar easier. Besides, Thachil makes an effort to contextualize the BJP's achievement in Chhattisgarh by comparing its trajectory...

... to ninety (Aaron 2002 , 47). The first large-scale, anti-Christian riot also occurred in 1998, in the Dangs, Gujarat, a region dominated by tribal, or adivasi , peoples, many of whom had become Christian. No Christians were killed in these riots, which began on Christmas day. But over the next few days...

... region of India. The region is divided politically among the states of Bihar, Bengal, Orissa, and Madhya Pradesh, but unified by a shared history of struggle between the adivasis (tribals) and caste communities over land and its management. The authors focus on the ways that gender relations among...

... and the subsequent history of the Naxalite movement, including its various splits and consolidations and its shift in the 1990s from focusing on lower-caste communities to focusing on adivasi (indigenous or tribal) regions. The book consists of a series of fairly short chapters covering the phases of Shah's...

..., Inc. 1993 1993 748 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES it. Susana B. C. Devalle has given us a portrait of the dynamics of adivasi culture as it has evolved through time. It is an active, integrated culture, one that casts off the stigma of passivity and inertness that has characterized traditional...

... Press . Bahl V. 1995 . The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Co., 1880–1946 . Delhi : Sage . Crispin Bates . 1994 . “ ‘Lost Innocents and the Loss of Innocence’: Interpreting Adivasi Movements in South Asia.” Chapter 6 in Indigenous Peoples...

... Division and Social Conflict focuses on the work of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, popularly known as the RSS, to promote a Hindu nationalist agenda among tribal ( adivasi ) communities surrounding a village in Chhattisgarh, in central India. In this monograph, Peggy Froerer, a research lecturer...

... to the struggles of the adivasi or indigenous peoples of two villages, Bagdiha and Chuapara. She also provides a conceptual framework that engages the work of postmodern scholars such as Gramsci, Foucault, and Bourdieu, and states two of her main working principles: first, “[a]ccepting a dynamic concept of power...

... two decades. When various chapters return to the transformations in rural India, they attend not only to agriculture or land settlement, but also to environmental questions, and to the struggles in the forested adivasi areas. Similarly, the account of the vicissitudes of the Congress as a formal...

... language for the text, unifying two parallel narratives of marginalization: if any social group could have experienced a historical disadvantage comparable to the “untouchable” lower castes, it is India's aboriginal tribes or adivasis . The tribes often managed to escape the terrors of the Hindu social...

... in the Himalaya . Delhi : Oxford University Press . Hardiman David. 1984 . “Adivasi Assertion in South Gujarat: The Devi Movement of 1922—3.” In Subaltern Studies III: Writings on South Asian History and Society . Edited by Guha Ranajit . Delhi : Oxford University Press . Skaria Ajay...