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020			_a9781009337908
028			_a: Raghav Books Private Limited _b: 2/25, First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi. _c: 2967 _d: 03/07/2026
082			_a320.01 RAN
100			_aRanjan, Rahul.
245			_a Political life of memory _b : Birsa munda in contemporary India. _c/Rahul Ranjan.
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2022.
300			_axxx,296p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b735
520			_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.
650			_aPolitical Science
650			_aBirsa Munda
650			_aContemporary India
700			_aRahul Ranjan.
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