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Presenting and interpreting his ethnohistorical data, the author addresses several issues of importance: the nature of kingship and the state in colonial and post-colonial India; the politics of ritual and the ritual of politics; the relation between kings and tribes; the Hinduization of tribal deities and more. \n
Burkhard Schnepel is a Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany. His main theoretical and thematic interests are political rituals in India, especially in Orissa.
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