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Colonial Forestry
colonial forestry impacts
Common Language
DFO
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ethnic identity formation
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forest conservation policy
Forest Department
Forest Officials
Forest Villages
Forward Bloc
FPC
Illegal Fellings
indigenous environmental resistance in Bengal
indigenous rights
Jalpaiguri District
North Bengal
Rabha Language
Rabhas
Rice Beer
Salient Ethnic Identity
Subaltern Historians
subaltern studies
Taungya System
Tea Gardens
Tiger Project
Tiger Reserve
tribal Christianity conversion
West Bengal
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780700711796
- Weight: 770g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people, one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. When the area came under British rule and was converted into tea gardens and reserved forests, Rabhas were forced to become labourers under the forest department. Today, large-scale illegal deforestation and the global interest in wildlife conservation once again jeopardize their survival. Karlsson describes the development of the Rabha people, their ways of coping with the colonial regime of scientific forestry and the depletion of the forest, as well as with present day concerns for wilderness and wildlife restoration and preservation. Central points relate to the construction of identity as a form of subaltern resistance, the Rabha;s ongoing conversion to Christianity and their ethnic mobilisation, and the agency involved in the construction of cultural or ethnic identities.
