In search of an identity
Jharkhand: Politics of Development and Identity by Amit Prakash; Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2001; pages 382, Rs.525. The structure of `internal' exploitation, where Indians also exploited the people of the Jharkhand region in the colonial past, has been brilliantly portrayed in Mrinal Sen's Mrigaya. Premised within such a framework, Prakash studies Jharkhand, which has a large Adivasi and unevenly distributed Dalit population and was the resource base and the `internal colony' of pre-2000 Bihar. When it came to the Jharkhandi identity, the Indian state could neither ignore the Jharkhand movement, which threatened its legitimacy, nor accept the demand for a Jharkhand State. As Prakash observes, the search for a Jharkhand State would have been achieved much earlier if the movement had not been affected by divisiveness, lost opportunities, ideological fluidity and inept leadership.
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