Adivasis in Colonial India Survival Resistance and Negotiation

Adivasis in Colonial India Survival Resistance and Negotiation

Adivasis were the part of South Asian reality at the time of India's colonization. This book provides a holistic view of the world of adivasis under the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapters focus on the impact of the sahukar-zamindar-sarkar nexus on the adivasis; the question of dispossession and migration in the face of colonial capitalism and global needs of labour; medical colonialism and the adivasi healing systems; and the different ideologies that guided the adivasi politics in colonial India- from protests against feudal rulers, to protests against the national movement and later, the struggles led by the socialists and communists. It also examines the genealogy of the concept of higher and lower races.