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Looks at the diversities of South Asian social History, focusing on Orissa. Examines the environment; health and medicine; conversion (in Hinduism); popular movements; social history of princely states; connections between the marginal social groups and nationalism; decolonisation; patriarchy; and gender-related violence. -- .

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Environment and social history: Kalahandi, c.1800–1950
3. Hegemony, shifting identities and conversions
4. Negotiating Dharma Pinnu: Towards a social history of smallpox in colonial Orissa
5. ‘Religion’ and social ‘subversion’: Re-examining popular movements
6. Interrogating stereotypes: Exploring the Orissan Princely States
7. Storm over Malkangiri: Laxman Naiko’s Revolt, 1942
8. Orissa and the making of the Nehruvian Nation State, 1946–52
9. ‘Living’ with dowry: Oral testimonies of gender oppression
Select bibliography
Index

South Asia from the Margins

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2012
      ISBN13: 9780719086588, 978-0719086588
      ISBN10: 719086582

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Looks at the diversities of South Asian social History, focusing on Orissa. Examines the environment; health and medicine; conversion (in Hinduism); popular movements; social history of princely states; connections between the marginal social groups and nationalism; decolonisation; patriarchy; and gender-related violence. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. Introduction
      2. Environment and social history: Kalahandi, c.1800–1950
      3. Hegemony, shifting identities and conversions
      4. Negotiating Dharma Pinnu: Towards a social history of smallpox in colonial Orissa
      5. ‘Religion’ and social ‘subversion’: Re-examining popular movements
      6. Interrogating stereotypes: Exploring the Orissan Princely States
      7. Storm over Malkangiri: Laxman Naiko’s Revolt, 1942
      8. Orissa and the making of the Nehruvian Nation State, 1946–52
      9. ‘Living’ with dowry: Oral testimonies of gender oppression
      Select bibliography
      Index

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