The Colonial Construction of Juang Adivasis: An Anthropological Interpretation of Colonial and Post-colonial Era

Abstract

Anthropological analysis is one of the index for the evaluation of a primeval Adivasi like Juang community. The covert elements of the socio-cultural ethos and economic environment. The structural and behavioral changes in the course of colonial interference and post-colonial legislation is the extensive regard of the current study. The perceptions and scrutiny of the anthropologists of every stage reveal the acclamation and triumph of the community. How the socio-cultural and economic maturation visualize and the myths is the context to be authenticate. The notion of colonial as well as the British and post-colonial scholars, anthropologists and intellectuals contradict to each other. Especially the study deals with the archival secondary sources, the collected myths and folklores of 15 days considerable study of fieldwork in Gonasika and Banspal areas of the Keonjhar district, Odisha. Still there is a need of a rigorous and full-fledged experiment on the Juang community to explore the material, ideological and contextual interpretations.