Manuscript Number : GISRRJ19272

Facing the wildness: British Travelling and Administrative accounts on the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Jharkhand

Authors(1) :-Indranil Pramanik

This paper deals with the early British interactions with the dense forest of Jharkhand in colonial time. British had their notion of the forest which circulates around the ideas of Romanticism and danger. As this forest was the biggest hindrance in the expansion of British authority among the unruly inhabitants of Chota Nagpur and Santhal Pargana, the Adivasis living there had greater freedom. With time, the British had overcome this obstacle by appropriating the landscape in many ways.

Authors and Affiliations

Indranil Pramanik
M.Phil Research Scholar, University of Hyderabad, India

Forest, Chota Nagpur, Adivasi, British, Santhal Pargana, dense

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 2 | Issue 6 | November-December 2019
Date of Publication : 2019-12-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 84-89
Manuscript Number : GISRRJ19272
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2582-0095

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Indranil Pramanik, "Facing the wildness: British Travelling and Administrative accounts on the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Jharkhand ", Gyanshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (GISRRJ), ISSN : 2582-0095, Volume 2, Issue 6, pp.84-89, November-December.2019
URL : https://gisrrj.com/GISRRJ19272

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