Encountering Colonial Modernity: British Rule and the Hos of Singhbhum

This paper looks into how in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British colonial rule categorised the 'tribal people' of Singhbhum, often borrowing from earlier pre-colonial perceptions. It further investigates into how the tribal people of Singhbhum reacted to such negative interpretations of their culture and embarked upon a programme of social and religious reform in course of the twentieth century.