The political life of memory : Birsa Munda in contemporary India /
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| Author / Creator: | Ranjan, Rahul, 1992- author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022 |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xxx, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13317627 |
| Summary: | This book examines the representation of Birsa's political life, memory politics and the making of anticolonialism in contemporary Jharkhand. It offers contrasting features of political imaginations deployed in developing memorial landscapes. Framing of Birsa in the heroic narrative through a grand scale of memorialisation, often in the form of the built environment, curates a selective version. This isolates the scope of elaborating his political ideas outside the confines of atypical historical records and their relevance in the contemporary context. The book argues that everyday politics through affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities. It shows how such symbolic sites are often strategically placed and politically motivated to inscribe ideologies. This process outlines how the state and Adivasi use memory as a political tool to lay claims to the past of the Birsa Movement. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xxx, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009337922 1009337920 9781009358583 1009358588 9781009337908 |
