Flaming fields and forest fires: Agrarian transformations and the making of Birsa Munda’s rebellion
Flaming fields and forest fires: Agrarian transformations and the making of Birsa Munda’s rebellion
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燃烧的田野和森林火灾：土地变革和比尔萨·蒙达叛乱的形成
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10.1177/0019464615619540
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发表时间：
2016
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通讯作者：
Uday Chandra
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作者：
Uday Chandra
这篇文章的目的是质疑“千禧年主义”的主要概念，以及它对英属印度的各种“部落”叛乱和社会运动的适用性。为此，我仔细地重新阅读了关于比尔赛起义的殖民档案和二手资料，以便重新思考在殖民时代被定义为“部落”的某些森林居民群体是如何在19世纪末实际遇到现代国家和基督教的。比尔赛人为什么拿起武器？谁叛变了？对谁？宗教在他们的起义中扮演了什么角色？在回答这些问题时，我遵循了亚巴尔特恩主义者的命令，用他们自己的语言认真对待边缘人和被压迫者的生活世界，而不是以先锋的方式强加给已经存在的概念秩序--千禧年主义。然而，我也打算忠实于社会历史学家的愿望，即揭示和检查比尔萨和他的追随者的社会位置、目标和方法。
The purpose of this article is to question the overarching notion of ‘millenarianism’ as well as its applicability to various ‘tribal’ rebellions and social movements in British India. I do so by carefully re-reading the colonial archives and secondary sources concerning the Birsaite uprising afresh in order to rethink how certain forest-dwelling groups who came to be defined as ‘tribes’ in colonial times actually encountered the modern state as well as Christianity in the late nineteenth century. Why did the Birsaites take up arms? Who rebelled? Against whom? What was the role of religion in their uprising? In answering these questions, I follow the Subalternist’s injunction to take the lifeworlds of the marginal and oppressed seriously in their own terms without imposing, in a vanguardist manner, the pre-existing conceptual order of ‘millenarianism’. Yet I also intend to be faithful to the social historian’s desire to uncover and examine the social location, aims and methods of Birsa and his followers.