In India, Adivasis had, over generations, evolved a complex system of resource-management in consonance with their natural surroundings, which enabled various communities with very different ways of life to earn their livelihoods in a difficult terrain. British colonial rule and its knowledge regime, by reducing local complexities into a monolithic system, tended to bring about far-reaching changes in Adivasis’ relationship with nature. This included the extension of cultivation and increased sedentarization, with sometimes disastrous results
Anthropology has played a significant political role in India, both deliberate and unintentional. Fr...
The interplay between local and imperial perceptions was a driving force behind the gradual evolutio...
The British ruledIndia for more than 150 years. They came as separate entity with different religion...
British colonial rule in India sought to bring the relatively autonomous forest and hill people unde...
The Hos of Singhbhum in the pre-British past had been dependent both on the forest and on cultivatio...
British colonial education in India, promoted under the policy frame of ‘filteration’, barely reache...
From the 1820s to the 1850s, the British Indian state undertook its final major phase of expansion t...
Tracing the long term continuities and discontinuities with the pre-colonial past, this book covers ...
In India colonialism affects the native culture in different ways, and concentrated their own in ord...
Adivasis are the indigenous people of eastern and central India who were identified as “tribes” unde...
Adivasis are the indigenous people of eastern and central India who were identified as “tribes” unde...
Focussing on the initial period of British colonial rule in Dharwar, western India, this article use...
Before the spread of extensive settled cultivation, the Indian subcontinent would have been inhabite...
Human societies are strongly dependent on their resource base. Changes in this base, in technologies...
The imperialist conquest of India transformed Britain into a global superpower, enhancing the empire...
Anthropology has played a significant political role in India, both deliberate and unintentional. Fr...
The interplay between local and imperial perceptions was a driving force behind the gradual evolutio...
The British ruledIndia for more than 150 years. They came as separate entity with different religion...
British colonial rule in India sought to bring the relatively autonomous forest and hill people unde...
The Hos of Singhbhum in the pre-British past had been dependent both on the forest and on cultivatio...
British colonial education in India, promoted under the policy frame of ‘filteration’, barely reache...
From the 1820s to the 1850s, the British Indian state undertook its final major phase of expansion t...
Tracing the long term continuities and discontinuities with the pre-colonial past, this book covers ...
In India colonialism affects the native culture in different ways, and concentrated their own in ord...
Adivasis are the indigenous people of eastern and central India who were identified as “tribes” unde...
Adivasis are the indigenous people of eastern and central India who were identified as “tribes” unde...
Focussing on the initial period of British colonial rule in Dharwar, western India, this article use...
Before the spread of extensive settled cultivation, the Indian subcontinent would have been inhabite...
Human societies are strongly dependent on their resource base. Changes in this base, in technologies...
The imperialist conquest of India transformed Britain into a global superpower, enhancing the empire...
Anthropology has played a significant political role in India, both deliberate and unintentional. Fr...
The interplay between local and imperial perceptions was a driving force behind the gradual evolutio...
The British ruledIndia for more than 150 years. They came as separate entity with different religion...