Tribals and Dalits in Orissa

Biswamoy Pati taught Modern Indian History at the Department of History, University of Delhi. Over the years, he received numerous Honours, awards and Fellowships, the last of them being a Senior Fellowship at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (2015-2017). He published extensively in terms of books, scholarly journals and edited collections. These include his monographs: Resisting Domination (1993), Situating Social History (2001), Identity, Hegemony, Resistance (2003), and South Asia From the Margins (2012). His edited collections include the landmark Health, Medicine and Empire (2001), besides India's Princely States (2007), The Rebellion of 1857 (2007) and The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India (2012). His latest volumes include Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India (2018) and the co-authored volume Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States (2018). Dr Pati also occasionally wrote a Guest Column for The Telegraph, Bhubaneswar. Hetragically passed away in June 2017.

• List of TablesPreface by Dr. Indrani SenAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations 1. Invisibility, Social Exclusion, Survival: Tribals and the Untouchables/Dalits in Orissa 2.The Rhythms of Change and Devastation: Colonial Capitalism and the World of the Socially Excluded, c.1800-1920 3.The Tribals and Outcastes Hit Back: Survival as Resistance in the Nineteenth Century 4.Health Matters: Exploring the World of the Tribals and Outcastes/ Dalits 5.Rituals of Legitimacy: Caste /Hegemony/Counter-Hegemony, c.1800-1940 6.Alternative Visions : The Communist and the State People's Movements, Nilgiri, 1937-48 Epilogue Select Bibliography About the Author

While Pati devotes much space to studying...everyday actions and strategies, he also pays significant attention to extraordinary events or movements. Focus on the disenfranchised is one of the threads that unite the entire monograph. One of Pati's strategies for achieving this is to study small events/scandals in great detail...At the same time, Pati not only examines their actions vis-à-vis the state/elites, but also while they were attempting to eke out a living. These are just as interesting as outright acts of resistance, bringing to the fore the realities and rhythms of everyday life, survival strategies, world-views and struggles. Such an approach challenges the urbanised perspective in most existing work on subaltern classes...While Pati devotes much space to studying...everyday actions and strategies, he also pays significant attention to extraordinary events or movements.