"Adivasi Movements and the Politics of Witch-hunting in Colonial Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas" lecture by Dr. Shashank Shekhar Sinha at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 30th October 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘Adivasi Movements and the Politics of Witch-hunting in Colonial Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas’ by Dr. Shashank Shekhar Sinha, Independent scholar.
Abstract : This paper is a part of a larger book project which explores the politics of witch-hunting in Chotanagpur /Jharkhand over the last 200 years. The world of spirits and witches was not a dead, insular domain. It intersected closely with changes in the socio-political milieu to acquire varied meanings and forms. The presence of different agents and forces with specific interests and locations — the colonial administration, ethnographers and anthropologists, adivasi patriarchs and reformers, witch doctors, caste-Hindus, Christian missionaries, and the post-colonial ‘development’ regime— invested the world of spirits and witches with an intensely political character.
This paper deals with the adivasi movements (involving Santhals, Mundas, Hos and Oraons, between 1850s-1930s) in colonial Chotanagpur and the Santhal Parganas region. It highlights the complexities in the movements as also its internal contradictions. Their engagements with spirits and witches should not be seen as simplistic reflections of a negative consciousness or a pristine desire for reform. In fact, it shows how the politics of the supernatural could acquire complex meanings at times —sometimes anti-colonial, sometimes sectarian— depending on the trajectory of the movement and leadership.
Speaker : Dr. Shashank Shekhar Sinha has taught history at PGDAV (E) College and Deshbandhu College in the University of Delhi. He has authored Restless Mothers and Turbulent Daughters: Situating Tribes in Gender Studies (2005) and is currently working on a manuscript on the politics of witch-hunting in eastern India.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘Adivasi Movements and the Politics of Witch-hunting in Colonial Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas’ by Dr. Shashank Shekhar Sinha, Independent scholar.
Abstract : This paper is a part of a larger book project which explores the politics of witch-hunting in Chotanagpur /Jharkhand over the last 200 years. The world of spirits and witches was not a dead, insular domain. It intersected closely with changes in the socio-political milieu to acquire varied meanings and forms. The presence of different agents and forces with specific interests and locations — the colonial administration, ethnographers and anthropologists, adivasi patriarchs and reformers, witch doctors, caste-Hindus, Christian missionaries, and the post-colonial ‘development’ regime— invested the world of spirits and witches with an intensely political character.
This paper deals with the adivasi movements (involving Santhals, Mundas, Hos and Oraons, between 1850s-1930s) in colonial Chotanagpur and the Santhal Parganas region. It highlights the complexities in the movements as also its internal contradictions. Their engagements with spirits and witches should not be seen as simplistic reflections of a negative consciousness or a pristine desire for reform. In fact, it shows how the politics of the supernatural could acquire complex meanings at times —sometimes anti-colonial, sometimes sectarian— depending on the trajectory of the movement and leadership.
Speaker : Dr. Shashank Shekhar Sinha has taught history at PGDAV (E) College and Deshbandhu College in the University of Delhi. He has authored Restless Mothers and Turbulent Daughters: Situating Tribes in Gender Studies (2005) and is currently working on a manuscript on the politics of witch-hunting in eastern India.
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"Adivasi Movements and the Politics of Witch-hunting in Colonial Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas" lecture by Dr. Shashank Shekhar Sinha at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 30th October 2012
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