South Asia from the Margins: Echoes of Orissa, 1800-2000

by Biswamoy Pati

This book aims to sketch the diversities of South Asian social History, focusing on Orissa. It highlights the problems of colonialism and its impact upon the lives of the colonised, even as it details the manner in which the internal order of exploitation worked. Based on archival and rare, hitherto untapped sources, including oral evidence, it brings to life diverse aspects of Orissa's social history, including the environment; health and medicine;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719086582
• ISBN13: 9780719086588
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"