Situating social history: Orissa, 1800-1997 (New perspectives in South Asian history)

This volume brings together six essays and a field note which together demonstrate the complexities and diversities that constitute the social history of Orissa over the last two hundred years. Using a range of sources - archival material, rare printed tracts, sessions court proceedings, literary works, oral testimonies and folk songs - author Biswamoy Pati creates a fascinating and multi-faceted social picture of Orissa in the modern period.