The Political Life of Memory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009337908)

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.

Author: Rahul Ranjan
ISBN-10: 1009337904
ISBN-13: 9781009337908
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2023
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.22w x 0.94d