Tribals and Dalits in Orissa: Towards a Social History of Exclusion, C. 1800-1950

by Biswamoy Pati

This book examines diverse aspects of the social history of the tribals and dalits/outcastes in Orissa. It delineates how the socially excluded sections were further impoverished by both colonial government policies and the chiefs of the despotic princely states who worked in tandem with the colonizers.

In the book, Biswamoy Pati studied several key issues including 'colonial knowledge' systems, the stereotyping of tribals as violent and brutal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199489408
• ISBN13: 9780199489404
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"