01647nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801270007608200150020310000190021824500850023726000550032230000230037736500080040052009540040865000220136265000160138465000230140070000180142320260706162520.0260706b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781009337908  a: Raghav Books Private Limitedb: 2/25, First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi.c: 2967d: 03/07/2026  a320.01 RAN  aRanjan, Rahul.  a Political life of memoryb : Birsa munda in contemporary India.c/Rahul Ranjan.  aNew Delhi b: Cambridge University Press c, 2022.  axxx,296p.c: 24cm.  b735  aThis 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.  aPolitical Science  aBirsa Munda  aContemporary India  aRahul Ranjan.