1st Edition
Contested Belonging An Indigenous People's Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal
By B. G. Karlsson
Copyright 2000
310 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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Deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people, one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. When the area came under British rule and was converted into tea gardens and reserved forests, Rabhas were forced to become labourers under the forest department.... Read more
one: Opening; one: Introduction; two: Identifying the Rabha; three: Life on the Margin; two: Tiger, Trees and Tribals; four: Coping with Colonial Forestry; five: Dwindling Forests and the Rule of the Tiger-Sahibs; three: Interrogating Identity; six: Becoming Rabha Christians; seven: 'Koch is Rabha: Rabha is Koch'; four: Imaginary Centres Made Real 1; eight: Modernity, Agency and Cultural Identity; nine: Contested Belonging
Biography
B. G. Karlsson
