Full Description
K's Singh was a versatile scholar apart from being an administrator and an ardent practitioner of historical ethnography. In course of his long tenure of explorations on tribal matters, spanning over four decades, Dr Singh penned many essays on tribal movements, tribal peasant interactions, tribal customary law, tribal economy and so on. Much to the chagrin of historians and anthropologists, he had adopted a combined methodology of historical research and anthropological field work in making his points before the readers and decision makers.
Contents
Preface; K S Singh: A Biographical Note; Dr K S Singh & the National Museum of Mankind; Tribal Movements in India: Visions of Dr K S Singh; Tribal Movements; Tribal Autonomy Movements in Chotanagpur; Agrarian Dimension of Tribal Movements; The Freedom Movements & Tribal Sub-Movements, 1920-1947; Ecology, Ethnicity, Regionalism & State Formation: An Exploration of the Jharkhand Movement; A Forest Satyagraha; Tribal Violence; Tribes, Partition & Independence; Tribal Peasantry, Millenarianism, Anarchism & Nationalism: A Case Study of the Tanabhagats in Chotanagpur, 1914-1925; Birsa Munda & His Movement in Chotanagpur, 1874-1901; Haribaba & His Movement Changes in Chotanagpur; Tribal Identity Movements Based on Script & Language; Script Reform & Development: A Study of Two Movements among the Ho Tribe in Singhbhum; Tribal Movements in Tripura; Bhabanand Mukherjee & K S Singh; The Gond Movements; The Mahato-Kurmi Mahasabha Movement in Chotanagpur; Index.
