Preface
1. Introduction
2. Environment and social history: Kalahandi, c.1800-1950
3. Hegemony, shifting identities and conversions
4. Negotiating Dharma Pinnu: Towards a social history of smallpox in colonial Orissa
5. 'Religion' and social 'subversion': Re-examining popular movements
6. Interrogating stereotypes: Exploring the Orissan Princely States
7. Storm over Malkangiri: Laxman Naiko's Revolt, 1942
8. Orissa and the making of the Nehruvian Nation State, 1946-52
9. 'Living' with dowry: Oral testimonies of gender oppression
Select bibliography
Index