The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India by David Hardiman
The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India

David Hardiman

The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India

David Hardiman

248 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

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In 1922, the adivasis of western India were commanded by a goddess--or Devi--to change their established way of life. Their collective efforts to obey this goddess quickly brought them into conflict with the locally dominant class of landlords and...

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