Social Movements in Orissa: 1936-76 (An Old and Rare Book)

"Social Movements in Orissa 1936-1976 has highlighted the role of four important segments of the society Le., peasants, Tribals, Youth and students and women. The discussion made in this work has revealed that social movements through began loosely in Orissa, that aimed to fatch the common goal. These are essentially collective in nature. The work has tried to answer some questions. What are the structural condition under which movements emerged? What are the theories which conceptualise the genesis of the movements?

Prof. Subash C. Padhy is working at Post Graduate Department of History. Berhampur University. He is the author of (1) British Relation with Chiefs and Rajas of Orissa 1803-1858 (Calcutta, 1986) Tribals of Orissa: Their Problems and Prospects (Berhampur, 2000): Freedom Movement: Prelude to sequel Bhubaneswar, 2001): Co-authored Peasants and Land Reforms in Orissa 1936-76 (Kolkata, 2004) and 'Colonialism in Orissa, Resisting Domination. Shifting paradigms (Kolkata. 2006) and edited 'Historians and Historiography 20th century Orissa (New Delhi, 2007) and co-edited by 'Society, Culture and Polity in Eastern India' (Bhubaneswar, 1999).

Dr. Susmita Mohapatra after completion of her Ph.D. Degree is now engaged in Post Doctoral Research work.

India has witnessed many social movements over the centuries. The history of such movements used to be ventilated by the sociologists and anthropologists. But in recent times historians have taken up this work seriously. This is an effort to fulfill the gap of a regional study. The historiography of such group of writing at the national level placed us to think about such micro level work. Itis obvious when the scholars of history pick up such study, one would be tempted to study the social structure, social processes, culture economic structure political power and interrelationships among them. In India context social movements of the pre-indepedence period particularly of the 19th century and early 20th century had the interrelationship of the post independent social movements. When we started this work, we thought of keeping the scope only to contemporary India. But, after materials were collected, we thought to trace back the history of social movements to pre-independent period. In comparing the socio-economic and political aspects, Religious part is not touched upon fully. With a hope to cater the need of the researchers and general readers, the work has been developed.

This work, "Social Movements in Orissa, 1936-37" has tried to critically examine and analyzing the major trends in different movements like Peasant Movements, Tribal Movements, Women Movement and Student and Youth Movement. The concepts used in this work on various movements are examined with precision. The people in Orissa raised their voice against the maladministration, vigorous economic policy, deplorable agrarian system and misrule of the rulers. In this work attempt is made to analyse the fundamental causes of the unrest.

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