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Savage attack: tribal insurgency in India/ edited by Crispin Bates and Alpa Shah - New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2014. - xii, 294 p. ; 23 cm.

Introduction-Savage Attack: Adivasis and Insurgency in India - Crispin Bates and Alpa Shah

1. We Shall Fight Them on the Beach: Counterinsurgency, Colonisation and the Andaman Islanders, 1771-1863 - Satadru Sen

2. `Natural Boundaries': Negotiating Land Rights and Establishing Rule on the East India Company's North-Eastern Frontier 1790s-1820s - Gunnel Cederloef

3. From `Natural Philosophy' to `Political Ritual': An Ethno-Historical Reading of the Colonial Sources on the Konds' Religion (Orissa) - Raphael Rousseleau

4. Locating Adivasi Identity in Colonial India: The Oraons and the Tana Bhagats in Chhotanagpur, 1914-1919 - Sangeeta Dasgupta

5. Tribal Armed Rebellion of 1922-1924 in the Madras Presidency: a Study of Causation as Colonial Legitimation - Atlury Murali

6. Events, Incidents and Accidents: Re-Thinking Indigenous Resistance in the Andaman Islands - Vishvajit Pandya

7. The Making and Unmaking of an Adivasi Working Class 200 in Western Orissa - Christian Strumpell

8. Adivasis and Communists in Post-Reform Kerala: Neoliberalism, Political Disillusionment, and the Indigenist Challenge - Luisa Steur

9. Thoughts on Religious Experience and `Politics' in Adivasi India: an Anthropologist Attempts a Rereading of History - Amit Desai

10. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Maoist Movement in Jharkhand, India - Alpa Shah

ISBN: 9788187358695

Subjects--Topical Terms:
British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
Politics and government
Insurgency
Scheduled tribes in India--Political activity

Dewey Class. No.: 320.954 / BAT/S