![]() It unravels the ways in which the adivasi society negotiated with itself and interacted with the shifts and changes that were taking place during this period. ![]() Bringing together contributions from historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and younger scholars, this volume provides a holistic view of the world of adivasis under the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their world was not a monolithic one but the order of stratification was significantly reinforced with the advent of colonialism and its diverse interventions, in terms of the complexities arising out of land settlements and the commercialisation of agriculture. They were a part of south Asian reality at the time of India`s colonisation. ![]() ![]() However, as this book goes to show, tribals were not just a colonial creation. How do we define ˜adivasis`? A post-modernist approach will situate them as ˜colonial constructs`. ![]()
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