Hybrid histories : forests, frontiers and wildness in western India
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Hybrid histories : forests, frontiers and wildness in western India
（Oxford India paperbacks, . Studies in social ecology and environmental history）
Oxford University Press, 2001, c1999
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Includes bibliography(p.[301]-316) and index
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Explores the politics of wildness - a dimension of Indian history. The text suggests that wildness was variously affirmed by early-19th-century forest communities as a way of challenging upper caste values. With colonial rule this was marginalized, leading to a new identity, "adivasi".
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