| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Asia

Nandini Sundar. Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar, 1854–1996. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. Pp. xxiv, 296. $28.95.

The mountain forests of Bastar are well travelled by anthropologists and folklorists. Thus it is fitting that the history of this vast region in the southeastern corner of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has begun to emerge from ethnographic efforts to piece together remnants of the past that will be useful for people in the present. Nandini Sundar did two years' fieldwork in villages populated primarily by people categorized officially as "tribals," and she combined this work with deep archival research and with a broad interest in current political issues to produce an impressive monograph that addresses many important themes in the modern history of subaltern groups in the hills of Asia. Her central theme is the changing political interaction of cultural authority with local struggles over legitimate control of material resources, particularly forests. Throughout the book, she balances archival accounts with oral histories, official texts with local memories. . . .

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