Description
This volume highlights how popular culture and oral cultural traditions
emerged as a site for multiple articulations—articulation of marginalization, as
well as resistance and subversion—in Bihar, and Jharkhand. In doing so, it tries
to capture the complexities of some of the diverse movements prevalent in
these regions. The formation of the state of Jharkhand, which was earlier part
of Bihar and known as Chotanagpur, has been the result of such movements,
some of which have not only created a democratic space in these regions
but also brought about a paradigm shift in Indian politics. Unfortunately, the
rich popular/subaltern culture of these regions has been overshadowed and
eclipsed in most of the scholarly work on this region, and this volume aims to
be a corrective to this scholarly oversight.