{"product_id":"santhal-pargana-the-hills-remember-everything-9798196300516","title":"Santhal Pargana: The Hills Remember Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pk Gupta\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - South - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the forested hills of eastern India, where the Damodar and Subarnarekha rivers flow through ancient sal forests, lives a history that official records have long tried to erase. \u003ci\u003eSanthal Pargana: The Hills Remember Everything\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping narrative history of one of India's most extraordinary regions - the homeland of the Santhal people, the Paharia, and the other Adivasi communities of the Chota Nagpur plateau.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Jurassic bedrock that shaped its landscape to the coal mines that scarred it, from the great Santhal Hul uprising of 1855 - when fifty thousand people rose against colonial rule - to the long, contested road to Jharkhand statehood in 2000, PK Gupta traces four hundred years of resistance, survival, and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not only a political history. It is the story of women like Phulo and Jhano, whose courage the textbooks overlooked. Of rivers that carry the memory of what the maps erased. Of a literary tradition forged in a script invented to preserve a language the empire tried to silence. Of villages that governed themselves by custom long before modern institutions arrived to replace them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on archival research, fieldwork across the Santhal Parganas, and oral histories shared by village elders and community historians, Gupta restores to the record what colonial and post-colonial power repeatedly sought to remove - the names, the voices, and the lived experience of a people who have never stopped fighting for their land, their forest, and their identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hills Remember Everything\u003c\/i\u003e is history told with rigour and deep empathy: a book for anyone who wants to understand how a region, a people, and a landscape remember what the world has tried to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892824424599,"sku":"9798196300516","price":1383.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196300516.webp?v=1781189232","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/santhal-pargana-the-hills-remember-everything-9798196300516","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}