The political life of memory : Birsa Munda in contemporary India /

"The Political Life of Memory examines the representation of Birsa Munda's political life, memory politics and the making of anti-colonialism in contemporary Jharkhand. It offers contrasting features of political imaginations deployed in developing memorial landscapes. The framing of Birsa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ranjan, Rahul, 1992- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Birsa Munda, > 1874-1901. Birsa Munda, > 1874-1901 > Monuments. Nationalism and collective memory > India > Jharkhand. Jharkhand (India) > Politics and government. Anti-imperialist movements > India > Jharkhand. Indigenous peoples > India > Jharkhand > Politics and government. Chota Nāgpur (India) > Politics and government > 19th century. Munda (Indic people) > Politics and government > 19th century. Anti-imperialist movements. Indigenous peoples > Politics and government. Monuments. Munda (Indic people) > Politics and government. Nationalism and collective memory. Politics and government. India > Chota Nāgpur. India > Jharkhand. 1800-1899

Table of Contents:

Claiming the Munda Raj from the Margins : Land, Missionaries and the Making of the Birsa Ulgulan in Chota Nagpur (1845-1900)
Memories Set in Stone : Political Aesthetics and the Statue of Birsa Munda in Post-colonial Jharkhand
'Burying the Dead, Creating the Past' : The Making of Memorials, Stone Slabs and Birsa Munda in Jharkhand
Echoes from the Graveyard : Pathalgadi, Birsaites and the Landscape of Memory.