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020			_a9781009337908 _qhbk.
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100			_aRanjan, Rahul, _91640962 _eauthor
245			_aThe political life of memory : _bBirsa Munda in contemporary India / _cRahul Ranjan.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bCambridge University Press, _c2022.
520			_a"This book examines the representation of Birsa's political life, memory politics and the making of anticolonialism in contemporary Jharkhand. It offers contrasting features of political imaginations deployed in developing memorial landscapes. Framing of Birsa in the heroic narrative through a grand scale of memorialisation, often in the form of the built environment, curates a selective version. This isolates the scope of elaborating his political ideas outside the confines of atypical historical records and their relevance in the contemporary context. The book argues that everyday politics through affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities. It shows how such symbolic sites are often strategically placed and politically motivated to inscribe ideologies. This process outlines how the state and Adivasi use memory as a political tool to lay claims to the past of the Birsa Movement."--
600			_aBirsa Munda, _y1874-1901. _91641321
650			_aMunda (Indic people)--Politics and government _91641322
650			_aIndia--Chota Nāgpur _91641323
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