From fire rain to rebellion: reasserting ethnic identity through narrative / edited and translated by Peter B. Andersen, Marine Carrin, Santosh K. Soren. - New Delhi : Manohar, 2011. - vi, 392 p. 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-392).

The Creation Story of the Sons of Man -- The Creation Story of the Sons of Man -- The Origin of the Clans, Tribes and Castes -- Separation of Communities -- Rebellion -- The Time Before the Santal Rebellion -- The Story of the Santal Rebellion -- Bongas -- The Bongas of the Sacred Grove -- Why Do Santals Worship the Deko Bongas? -- The Kherwar Movement -- The Story of the Babajius -- Bonga Lovers -- Marriage Between Human Beings and Bongas -- An Unmarried Girl Who Died and Rose After -- Cremation to Wear Shell Wristlets --Spiriting Away by Bongas -- Hunt -- The Story about the Hunt -- Debt and Wealth -- The Story of a Wealth-Bonga -- The Man Who Was in Debt to a Moneylender -- The Fight Between the Moneylender and the Tenants

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Santal (South Asian people)--Ethnic identity.
Santal (South Asian people)--History.

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