Deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people,
one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising
shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the
Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. When the area came
under British rule and was converted into tea gardens and reserved
forests, Rabhas were forced to become labourers under the forest
department. Today, large-scale illegal deforestation and the global
interest in wildlife conservation once again jeopardize their
survival. Karlsson describes the development of the Rabha people,
their ways of coping with the colonial regime of scientific
forestry and the depletion of the forest, as well as with present
day concerns for wilderness and wildlife restoration and
preservation. Central points relate to the construction of identity
as a form of subaltern resistance, the Rabha;s ongoing conversion
to Christianity and their ethnic mobilisation, and the agency
involved in the construction of cultural or ethnic identities.
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