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A Rogue and Peasant Slave Adivasi Resistance 1800–2000 Shashank Kela 18 Why do adivasi societies defend themselves so desperately against the state? What is it that sparks so much protest and conflict in India’s adivasi regions? These are some of the questions this book seeks to answer. The first part shows how the bhils of western Madhya Pradesh were affected by colonialism, the perceptions and notions that shaped colonial policy, its effects on material life and politics, how bhil groups adapted to these developments—and resisted them. A social history cast as narrative —a narrative of blindness and rancour, resistance and change—it charts the emergence of an unjust and oppressive social order. The second part is a reflection on adivasi politics in the twentieth century. It begins with the (understandably suspicious) adivasi response to nationalism, and goes on to examine India’s development policies and their effect upon adivasi societies. It looks at the emergence of an adivasi middle class and the contradictions of its political role, as well as collective modes of protest and adaptation. A Rogue and Peasant Slave challenges the current academic consensus on the relationship between adivasi societies and the castebased agrarian order, and seeks to place them in the context of a wider agrarian and ecological history. It reveals the intimate connection between the past and the present, and shows how some of India’s most pressing contemporary conflicts can only be understood with reference to a history whose consequences are still working themselves out. Shashank Kela worked as an activist in a trade union of adivasi peasants in western Madhya Pradesh between 1994 and 2004. This is his first book. ‘Succeeds in bringing alive, with great sympathy, the histories of those who reject our ways of life’ Wall Street Journal–Mint ‘Well argued, cogently written—fills a major lacuna in the existing literature on adivasi pasts and futures in mainland India’ —Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library ‘Chronicles the devastating impact of colonialism on adivasi societies in India continuing to the present engagement of the state with the forest communities’ —The Hindu ‘Contributes to the scholarship on tribal societies and adds to the voices speaking out against the neglect and exploitation of adivasi people’—India Today 2012 ISBN 9788189059361 392 pages Hardback 5.5 x 8.5” Rs 595 All rights available
Ambedkar’s World The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement Eleanor Zelliot This is a re-issue of a classic monograph on the rise of the Mahar movement in western India. While Eleanor Zelliot has published three books and eighty articles on caste, untouchability and the dalit movement, her 1969 PhD thesis has remained unavailable. Ambedkar’s World documents the social and political forces that shaped Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (b. 1891), the greatest leader of dalits in India, and the manner in which Ambedkar shaped the destiny of the dalits of Maharashtra and India. The Mahar army tradition, the cult of Cokhamela, the Mahad satyagraha, temple-entry movements, the various newspapers Ambedkar edited, the Round Table Conferences, the question of conversion, the political parties Ambedkar founded—Zelliot chronicles them all. Using a wide array of primary sources she offers a rich history of one of modern India’s most defining movements. In its scope and depth as a singlecaste history, this work remains as yet unsurpassed. ‘Eleanor Zelliot, the doyenne of historians of untouchability, that senstitive student of contemporary Maharashtra who is widely admired by the scholars and activists... has both captivated and influenced me’ —Ramachandra Guha, historian ‘Eleanor’s historical work on Ambedkar, on the Buddhist conversion of the Dalits... and on the subsequent cultural and literary movements has changed the paradigm in the study of South Asia’— Citation, 1999 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies from the Association for Asian Studies Eleanor Zelliot pioneered the study of the dalit movement in India in the 1960s. She was Laird Bell Professor of History (1969– 1997) at Carleton College, Minnesota. She is the author of From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement. December 2012 ISBN 9788189059545 280 pages Paperback 5.5 x 8.5” Rs 295 All rights available
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