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The political life of memory : Birsa Munda in contemporary India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2022Description: xxiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781009337908
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.127 RAN-P
Contents:
Part 1 : Context and theory
Part 2 : 'Historical memory'
Part 3 : Ethnography of memory, objects and resistance
Summary: "The Political Life of Memory examines the representation of Birsa Munda's political life, memory politics and the making of anti-colonialism in contemporary Jharkhand. It offers contrasting features of political imaginations deployed in developing memorial landscapes. The framing of Birsa in the heroic narrative through a grand scale of memorialisation, often in the form of the built environment, curates a selective version. This isolates the scope of elaborating his political ideas outside the confines of atypical historical records and their relevance in the contemporary context. This book argues that everyday politics through affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions and opportunities. It shows how such symbolic sites are often strategically placed and politically motivated to inscribe ideologies. This process outlines how the state and Adivasis use memory as a political tool to lay claims to the past of the Birsa movement"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 : Context and theory

Part 2 : 'Historical memory'

Part 3 : Ethnography of memory, objects and resistance

"The Political Life of Memory examines the representation of Birsa Munda's political life, memory politics and the making of anti-colonialism in contemporary Jharkhand. It offers contrasting features of political imaginations deployed in developing memorial landscapes. The framing of Birsa in the heroic narrative through a grand scale of memorialisation, often in the form of the built environment, curates a selective version. This isolates the scope of elaborating his political ideas outside the confines of atypical historical records and their relevance in the contemporary context. This book argues that everyday politics through affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions and opportunities. It shows how such symbolic sites are often strategically placed and politically motivated to inscribe ideologies. This process outlines how the state and Adivasis use memory as a political tool to lay claims to the past of the Birsa movement"--

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