01697nam a22002297a 4500 20260706162520.0 260706b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781009337908 : Raghav Books Private Limited : 2/25, First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi. : 2967 : 03/07/2026 320.01 RAN Ranjan, Rahul. Political life of memory : Birsa munda in contemporary India. /Rahul Ranjan. New Delhi : Cambridge University Press , 2022. xxx,296p. : 24cm. 735 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. Political Science Birsa Munda Contemporary India Rahul Ranjan. BOOK 70280 70280 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-07-06 Raghav Books Pvt. Ptd. 735.00 0 320.01 RAN 31579 2026-07-06 16:25:41 2026-07-06 BOOK