Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100304
A. Menon
Forest histories have more often than not remained aloof from more broad-based economic histories of agrarian communities. As a result, narratives of the forest economy have focused almost entirely on the process offorest settlement. This article focuses on regional processes of territorialisation associated with revenue and forest settlement in the context of the Kolli Hills. It is argued that the colonial state's usurpation of land created a false dichotomy betweenforests and fields that did not exist locally. Hence, the impact of colonialism on forest- dependent communities is understood within the wider purview of the land question in the Kolli Hills, both in the past and the present.
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100307
Denys P. Leighton
In the preface of Woman and Empire, Indrani Sen signals her intention to not contribute to the empirical endeavour of women’s history but to systematically examine Anglo-Indian literary texts of the period 1858-1900 as ’cultural products’. She takes as her subject the representation of Woman in selected non-fiction and fiction texts of Anglo-Indian and ’metropolitan’ (that is, British) writers. Although Dr Sen occasionally alludes to a distinction between literary representations and the ’historical real’ in her discussions of texts, she proceeds from the premise that both ‘literary’ and ’non-fictional’ writings constitute ’constructions [sic] of an imagined reality’ (p. xiii). She acknowledges the ’generic distinctiveness’ of the literary and non-literary texts that form the raw material of her study, while treating them as grist for the mill in the process of decoding ’colonial discursive practice’, the latter being understood as a ’means of exercising power and control’ and ’participating [sic] in the formation of ideologies’ (pp. xii-xiii). In the final analysis, Sen does speak to the ’historical real’ of the Raj-namely the attitudes and assumptions of Anglo-Indian writers, and presumably of their readers, about gender, race and social hierarchy. She refers to relevant recent work in gender history and literary studies-for instance, Jenny Sharpe’s Allegories of Empire and Nancy Paxton’s Writing Under the Raj-while clearly setting out her own judgements about particular texts as well as about
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100302
L. Subramanian
In December 1800, the city of Surat witnessed an important trial involving its leading citizen, Shri Krishna Arjunji Nathji Tarwadi, who was charged with the murder of a manservant on his premises. The trial lasted in the Sessions Courts of the English East India Company for about a month, generating strong emotions among the parties involved, until it petered out with the English Company officials deferring to traditional notions and prescriptions of penitence, punishment and customaty sanction, and with Tarwadi being acquitted of the murder charge. The trial in many ways represented a critical episode in the Anglo-Bania chapter of Surat's history and brought into sharp focus the interactive processes of British- Indian relationships in the period of transition and its implications for both the constitution of merchant identities in western India as well as the self-perception of the English Company, and the profile and presence it wanted to maintain in the region. The present article is an attempt to draw out the ramifications of the Anglo-Bania partnership in Surat as it entered its final stage, and to focus on its changing nature under the aegis of a legal system that was not quite in place at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By focusing on the Surat trial of 1800, a dramatic site where notions of justice confronted issues of caste prerogative and the more mundane considerations of material advantage, my article teases out the com plexities of negotiation between Indian merchants and the English East India Company during a period of transition.
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100303
S. Pandya
This article deals with a hitherto overlooked aspect of Western medical education in nineteenth-century colonial India, namely the initiation of the early generations of Indian medical students into the principles and practice of 'rational' enquiry. The manner in which recipients of the instruction subsequently demonstrated their entry into the 'rational' world in the field of therapeutics and their responses to the germ theory of disease is explored with respect to four graduates of the Grant Medical College, Bombay. The approach they adopted when confronted with two major issues—treatment and causation-thrown up by leprosy provides the vehicle for the study. It is concluded that Western medicine-trained Indian physicians were not passive receptacles of the received 'rational' wisdom. They interpreted, utilised and exploited it in highly individualistic and revealing ways.
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100305
G. Prakash
What’s eating Sumit Sarkar? The present collection provides an answer. Like his previous volume of essays, Writing Social History ( 1999), Beyond Nationalist Frames suggests that Sarkar is very troubled by postmodernism, the ’Saidian turn’ in colonial and post-colonial studies, the various follies of Subaltern Studies (though he too was once a Subaltern recruit), and the rise of Hindutva. Of course, no one writes outside his or her worldly context, as Edward Said argued so insistently and compellingly, but so great is Sarkar’s worry with contemporary political and intellectual trends that it dominates his writings. Beyond Nationalist Frames contains essays that are united, according to the author, by a concern with ’the vicissitudes of our times, at once political and academic’ (p. 1). These include the advance of Hindutva, globalised capitalism, the post-Marxist and postmodernist moods, and the shift from social history to cultural studies. Together, these have imposed a colonial/anti-colonial binary, valorised concepts of indigenism and cultural authenticity, and led to facile critiques of Western discourses as mere instruments of alien hegemony. Writing against these surely indefensible ideas, Sarkar presents himself as an historian with an ’unfashionable
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100308
K. M. Shrimali
Ever since Professor R.S. Sharma’s path-breaking monograph Indian Feudalism, c. 300-1200 was published in 1965, there have been phenomenal discussions on state and society in the pre-modem centuries in India. This volume edited by Professor Champakalakshmi et al., can be seen as an important input in the debate on this major concern of historians of the last four decades. Ten papers included in this volume
自从R.S. Sharma教授开创性的专著《印度封建主义》(Indian Feudalism, c. 300-1200)在1965年出版以来，就出现了关于印度前现代几个世纪的国家和社会的惊人讨论。这本书由Champakalakshmi教授等人编辑，可以看作是在过去四十年历史学家对这一主要问题的辩论中的重要投入。本卷收录了十篇论文
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100309
Satadru Sen
would have preferred to place Raju’s contribution at the beginning, rather than at the end of the volume, as has indeed been done by the editors. Absence of any contribution of Andhra should be seen as a significant desideratum of the volume. It needs to be recalled that in 1989 Professor Champakalakshmi had organised a similar seminar under the auspices of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. The theme then was ’The State in Pre-Colonial South India’ and major participants included all those who are marked with an asterisk in the aforesaid list of contributors to the Thrissur Seminar. The major concerns of the JNU Seminar were not very dissimilar and some of the presentations too were on common themes. For example, M.G.S. Narayanan’s paper dealt with ’The Cera Kingdom of Makotai-Factual and Conceptual Problems Related to State Formation in Kerala’ (but unlike the Thrissur presentation, this one was situated within Marc
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100310
Sasheej Hegde
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100306
Rohan D’souza
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Pub Date : 2004-04-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100203
Sangeeta Dasgupta
This article analyses some of Sarat Chandra Roy's writings on the Oraons that were for mulated between 1915 and 1937 in order to point to the different shades of opinion that were reflected in his works as he sought to define, and redefine, his image of the Oraons and that of the 'tribe'. An anthropologist who had in the formative years internalised the precepts of British social anthropology and supported colonial intervention in Chhotanagpur, Roy became, towards the end of his career, one who deeply sympathised with the communities of Chhotanagpur as he advocated an 'Indian approach' to the study of anthropology. In a larger context, this article cautions one against an uncritical acceptance of anthropological representations, and suggests that an anthropologist and his writings need to be located within a historical context.
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