The Jungle Kings

The Jungle Kings

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Author: Burkhard Schnepel
Publisher: Manohar
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 360
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8173044678

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This book deals with kingship in Orissa. However, it is concerned neither with the great kingdoms of central Orissa, nor with the little kingdoms lying on the coast or in the fertile river valleys of Orissa, but with jungle kingdoms lying in the remote hinterland of south Orissa. The discussion is based on material collected by the author during extensive fieldwork and archival research in Orissa during the 1990s.

Presenting and interpreting his ethnohistorical data, the author also addresses several issues of more general importance-the nature of kingship and the state in colonial and post-colonial India; the politics of ritual and the rituals of politics; the relation between kings and tribes, the Hinduization of tribal deities; the complementarity of tribal and royal principles of action and organization; or the uses of historical reconstructions as legitimating strategies. It is argued that these and other topics can be shown in new light, not although but because a political unit is the focus of research which hitherto has experienced hardly any scholarly attention-the jungle kingdom.