Tribes Forest and Social Formation in Indian History

B.B. Chaudhuri, Arun Bandopadhyay (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2024
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (Verlag)
978-81-7304-551-6 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive social history of tribes and forests in India is yet to be written. However, considerable research work has been done in the last few decades on the variations of social formation emanating from the relationship between tribes and forests in India. Questions multiplied over time. To what extent were the tribes or communities residing in forests living in isolation of peasant society? How far were they prudent in the use of forest resources in different periods? How did state for- mations affect natural resource exploitation and the respective social formations over time? What was the exact nature of colonial watershed in ecologic terms? How have the issues related to forest management and community rights been tackled in post-colonial years?

In the wake of the emergence of subaltern studies in the 1980s and the ecological studies in the 1990s, a need was felt to approach these questions from new perspectives. The present volume, mainly combines revised versions of the papers presented at a Panel organ- ized by the Indian History Congress in 2001 with an Introduction by the editors. It argues that since the 1970s old issues of economic development and social integration have given place to the new ones of community, culture, power, class and identity in recent years. The contributors represent multiple viewpoints, question old assumptions, revise them whenever possible and often take altogether new positions to stimulate academic interest to promote further studies and research on the subject.

B.B. Chaudhuri, one of the noted historians of modern India, retired as Professor of Economic History, University of Calcutta. He was President of the Indian History Congress in 2012. Arun Bandopadhyay has wide range of research interests: agrarian history, business history and history of science and environment. He retired as Nurul Hasan Professor of History and Dean of Arts, University of Calcutta. His books include Science and Society in India, 1750-2000.

Preface 7 Introduction
B.B. Chaudhuri and Arun Bandopadhyay 9
State’s Perception of the ‘Forest’ and the
‘Forest’ as State in Early India
B.D. Chattopadhyaya 23
Re-thinking Forest, Forest Dwellers and Ecological History
K.S. Singh 39
From Tribe to Caste? The Koragas of South Canara
Kesavan Veluthat 51
Tribes, Forest, and Social Formation in Early South India
Rajan Gurukkal 65
Situating Tribals in the Early History of Orissa
Shishir Kumar Panda 81
Adivasi and Aranyaka: Reconsidering Some Characterizations
of Their Polity and Economy in Pre-colonial and Colonial India
B.B. Chaudhuri 89
Reinterpreting Tribal Livelihood Systems: Underdevelopment and the Local Political Economy in Central India, 1800-1940 Archana Prasad 109
Tribes, Soldiers, and Social Change in
Early Nineteenth Century Malwa
Amar Farooqui 145
Forest-Human Interface: The Forest Policy of the
Native State of Cochin (1800-1947)
K.T. Thomas 161
Tribal Resistance in Chotanagpur: A Case Study of the
Dubia Gossain Movement (1870-1880)
P.K. Shukla 171
Forests, Development Ideology and Peasant/Tribal Life-World: Madras Presidency, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Atlury Murali 181
Three Issues from a CPR Management: VIllage Forestry in Post-colonial South Asia
Arun Bandopadhyay 209
CONTRIBUTORS 225

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2024
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	81-7304-551-8 / 8173045518
ISBN-13	978-81-7304-551-6 / 9788173045516
Zustand	Neuware