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...Lawrence A. Babb Tribal Religion: Religious Beliefs and Practices among the Santals . By Joseph Troisi . Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Books , 1979 . xvi, 294 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Author Index, Subject Index. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980...

...Christopher V. Hill Tribal Guerrillas: The Santals of West Bengal and the Naxalite Movement . By Edward Duyker . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1987 . xviii, 201 pp. $17.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 904 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Tribal...

...; the evidence would suggest that such a relationship was artificial at best. In any case, vengeance proved to be a strong motivating factor in armed confrontations between Santals and their oppressors. The author is particularly astute in describing the ability of the Naxalites to tie Santal tradition...

... on Calcutta's social history. CHRISTINE FUREDY York University Tribal Religion: Religious Beliefs and Practices among the Santals. By JOSEPH TROISI. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1979. xvi, 294 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Author Index, Subject Index. $17.50. Recent years have seen interesting developments...

... account of tribal women's struggle to claim their rightful share of landholdings in India, Nitya Rao delves into the lives of twenty-four Santal women over a period of eighteen months, from June 1999 to December 2000. As the title of this book implies, it is difficult for a Santal woman to cultivate land...

... subtle. The forced integration of indigenes into a market economy is a good example of an economic form of subjugation. The Santals of North- BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 701 Central India, who lost much of their land to moneylenders when the British interjected themselves into Santal society, represent...

... as "The Learned One" (a rough translation of the Sanskrit name he took for himself). The present population of Ranjana is about 1,000; there are nine Hindu castes, Muslims and Santal tribesmen in the village. Apparently, brahmans formerly constituted the dominant caste, with the family of "The Learned One...

...; the Pods (a scheduled caste) of 24-Parganas also arose. But in the rest of Bengal, the locale of the revolts had shifted to areas that had been in the periphery of the earlier revolts, notably amongst the Santals (also a scheduled tribe) in Rajshahi. By the end of 1950, the revolts were suppressed and were...

... knowledge of India. Geoffrey Oddie reviews the role of pandits in shaping missionary knowledge of Hinduism, concluding that, in all but a few exceptional cases, other sources were more influential. Peter Andersen's study of the Kherwar movement among the Santals takes up another of Frykenberg's concerns...

... to 1920 "alien domination" brought about the slow but steady disintegration of the old tribal social order among the Santals, Mundas, and Oraons of eastern India. Two essays, by Atiya Habeeb Kidwai and Meera Kosambi, detail the dramatic character of the colonial impact on India's urban sector, marked...

... BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 701 Central India, who lost much of their land to moneylenders when the British interjected themselves into Santal society, represent the type of oppression capitalism can inflict upon the indigenes. Bigotry, of course, is another tool of subjugation. One of the more...

... is referred to throughout the study as "The Learned One" (a rough translation of the Sanskrit name he took for himself). The present population of Ranjana is about 1,000; there are nine Hindu castes, Muslims and Santal tribesmen in the village. Apparently, brahmans formerly constituted the dominant caste...

...; there are nine Hindu castes, Muslims and Santal tribesmen in the village. Apparently, brahmans formerly constituted the dominant caste, with the family of "The Learned One" exercising preeminent influence. Their position was gradually usurped by the more numerous Sadgop cultivator caste. In the post-Independence...

.... But if this was an error it was generally repeated everywhere and had about the same outcome. Indeed the Bhumij revolt was historically connected with a related revolt among the Ho and numerous other "tribal" revolts broke out later in the nineteenth century. One of these among the Santal was on a considerable scale...

..." revolts broke out later in the nineteenth century. One of these among the Santal was on a considerable scale, though these people had no such elaborate hierarchy of native officials as the Bhumij and were much less Hinduized. Though the author has performed a useful service in drawing together...

... are not here, though in some cases one can feel the writer struggling to avoid that which is expected of him. The temptation of the "noble savage" theme, the "noble savage" being here represented by the Santal tribesman in "The Seat of Stone" and "The Obstacle," is successfully, though barely, avoided...

... to tease out the variables that best explain who migrates and who remains at home. The next section focuses on the tribal peoples of Chota Nagpur and Santal Parganas. Included is a study by S. D. Badgaiyan and another by Niren C. Choudhury and Sharit Bhowmick. Both cover much of the same ground and come...

... interesting case study. Making sense of individual and social agency in conversion of the adivasi (tribal) population from the Santals in Bengal in the aftermath of the mid-nineteenth-century revolts to the present-day Dangs in Gujarat and the Rabhas in West Bengal and elsewhere is at the heart of Peter B...

..., pointing to the necessary and positive aspects of the subaltern's religious ideals. In his discussion of the Santal Hool of 1855,19 for example, he criticizes traditional Marxism for ignoring the mythic and ritual dimension of peasant insurgency, calling for a clearer recognition of the religious element...

... also recruited at various times: Bhils, Santals, Mhairs, Moplahs, Ahirs, Minas, Christians, Kolis, and other scheduled tribes and castes. 9 For an informed and suitably scathing attack on this policy see the series of articles by one of India's most remarkable students of military policy...