WESTERN EDUCATION AND RISE OF NEW IDENTITY - MUNDAS AND ORAONS OF CHOTANAGPUR, 1839-1939

Authors
BARA J
Citation
J. Bara, WESTERN EDUCATION AND RISE OF NEW IDENTITY - MUNDAS AND ORAONS OF CHOTANAGPUR, 1839-1939, Economic and political weekly, 32(15), 1997, pp. 785-790
Citations number
60
Categorie Soggetti
Political Science
Journal title
Economic and political weekly → ACNP
ISSN journal
00129976
Volume
32
Issue
15
Year of publication
1997
Pages
785 - 790
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-9976(1997)32:15<785:WEARON>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Tribal communities in India were neither closed and static entities no r did they passively succumb to changes wrought by external influences . This article traces the evolution of educated munda and oraon youth in Chotanagpur under the patronage of British western education and th e church missionaries. Yet these very youth were in the forefront in a rticulating their distinct identity against the internal colonialism p erpetuated by the Biharis and against the communal politics engulfing Bengal.