Discourses of Ethnicity: Culture and Protest in Jharkhand

A.K. Roy adivasi peasants adivasi petty-bourgeoisie adivasi societies administrative agrarian alien anthropology arrows Bengal Bhumij Bihar Birsa Birsa Seva Dal Birsaite Movement British capitalist century Chotanagpur Christian collective colonial conception considered context cultivation culture of protest Damin Dhanbad diku discourses domination E.P. Thompson economic educated adivasis elements emergence ethnic groups existing exploitation expressed forcible harvesting forest Government grass-roots Hazaribagh hegemony Hindu identity ideology India indigenous industrial instance Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Jharkhand Party K.S. Singh land landlords leader ment mode moneylenders Munda Mundari non-adivasi oppression Oraons organization Orissa Paharias Palamau peasantry police political population present problem production raja Ranchi reality reformist ethnicists region relations resistance rural S.C. Roy Santal Movement Santal Parganas Santal peasants Sardars Scheduled Tribes Sengupta Sibu Sibu Soren Singhbhum situation social sectors socio-economic struggle subaltern sectors subordination symbolic tion village violence worker-peasant alliance workers zamindars