01921nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800980007608200150017410000180018924500900020726000450029730000250034236500080036752010440037565000190141965000160143865000200145470000170147494200090149199900170150095201620151720260728113002.0260728b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789353456368  a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, 7, Ansari Road, New Delhic: TB1153  a307.14 KHA  aKhalid, Umar.  aFractured Communitiesb: Adivasi Histories and The Politics of Power.c/ Umar Khalid.  a, New Delhib: Juggernaut Booksc, 2026.  axlix, 348p.c: 16cm.  b349  aUmar Khalid completed his PhD thesis on the history of the Adivasi tribes of the Singhbhum region of Jharkhand under extraordinary circumstances. He was facing sedition charges, had spent time in jail and had been rusticated from the university.

The thesis was submitted at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Centre for Historical Studies in July 2018. Since then, it has garnered significant attention among scholars and historians. Ramachandra Guha has called it ‘one of the most accomplished doctoral dissertations by an Indian that I have read’, while Nandini Sundar described it as a ‘deeply insightful’ work by a ‘brilliant mind’.

In Fractured Communities, published in book form for the first time, Khalid combines archival rigour with analytical clarity to illuminate the history of Singhbhum’s tribal societies under British rule. The book is both a valuable work of history and a critique of histories written from positions of power, which tend to "flatten differences among and, more crucially, within communities.  aSocial Science  aCommunities  aSocial Conflict  aUmar Khalid.  cBOOK  c70553d70553  00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2026-07-28eTechnical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.g349.00l2m1o307.14 KHAp31614r2026-10-24 16:02:13s2026-10-12w2026-07-28yBOOK