Format:
1 online resource (374 pages)
ISBN:
9789811634246
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Volume -- Important Keywords -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Map -- List of Tables -- 1 Revisiting Tribe-British Relations: Tribal Worldview and Colonial Ideology at Perspective -- Introduction -- Organisation of the Book -- Mindscape -- Revisiting Tribe-British Relations -- Recreating Identity -- References -- Part I Mindscape -- 2 Engaging with Tribes of Eastern Kumaun in Colonial Era -- Land and the People -- Opening up of the Himalayas: Initial Forays -- Era of Explorations: Saga of Pundit Nain Singh Rawat -- Mission Divine -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Journey from Isolation to Interaction During British Raj: Case of Natives in Andaman -- Introduction -- Interest in Andaman -- Between and Betwixt Settlements -- Thinking for the Resettlement -- Resistance and Repression -- Pacification -- Eye on Onges and Jarawas -- Hostility by Jarawa -- Andaman Home-Civilising Den -- Civilising Cost: Disease and Death -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Indira Goswami's The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhari Tehsildar: A Critique of the British Colonialism and Resistance Against It -- Introduction -- Thengphakhari and History -- Thengphakhari-A Colonial Mimic -- Thengphakhari: Subaltern Silence and Resistance -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Institutionalisation of Dobhasi: The British Strategy for the Naga Tribes in North-East India -- The Naga Under British Administration -- Pre-colonial Village Governance Among the Nagas -- Colonial Remnants: The Dobhasi -- Dobhasi: Powers and Functions -- Dobhasi: Colonial Agents or Native Representatives -- Resisting Conversion -- Custodians of Customary Law? -- Coexistence of Dobhasi and Gaonbura -- Ethics and the Institution of Dobhasi -- Concluding Remarks -- References.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811634239
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tribe-British relations in India Singapore : Springer, 2021 ISBN 9811634238
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811634239
Language:
English
Keywords:
Britisch-Indien
;
Kolonialverwaltung
;
Ethnologie
;
Adivasi
