Reframing the Adivasi
The exhibition will emphasise the importance of bringing in Adivasi voices which question colonial and post-colonial archives and reveal an alternative history of struggle for justice, dignity, and human rights.
This exhibition brings into focus Adivasi communities in eastern and central India, the ways in which such communities have been stereotyped, and how Adivasi voices have critiqued such representations.
Using lithographs and photographs of ‘aboriginal tribes’ in ethnographic and anthropological texts, a missionary archive, picture postcards, and images of objects from museums, this exhibition tracks the shifting images of the ‘tribe’ in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial representations. It also looks at post-colonial representations of the ‘adivasi’ through the use of a philatelic archive that includes postage stamps, special covers and postal stationery. Finally, this exhibition draws upon excerpts from unpublished articles, diaries, poems and songs of Bishop Dr Nirmal Minz, along with photographs from his private collection, in order to rethink the production of knowledge about the tribe/adivasi in colonial and postcolonial times.
Curators: Sangeeta Dasgupta and Vikas Kumar
Day 1
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Walkthroughs
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Lecture: Reframing the Adivasi by Sangeeta Dasgupta and Vikas Kumar Moderator: Amalendu Jyotishi at Hampi 001 (B3-01)
Day 2
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Walkthroughs
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Panel Discussion: Sangeeta Dasgupta and Vikas Kumar will be in conversation with the Adivasi Toli Moderator: Shantidani Minz at Hampi 003 (B3-03)
About the Curators
Sangeeta Dasgupta teaches history at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.
Vikas Kumar teaches economics at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
About the Moderators
Amalendu Jyotishi teaches economics at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
Shantidani Minz teaches community medicine at Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore.