Witch-Hunting: A Mute Atrocity Against Indigenous Women

Kumar, Rajeev; Madhuri, None

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“…She may be ejected from the village and subjected to utter isolation and ostracism (Kumari & Alam, 2021; Mukherjee, 2017). The suspected witches may suffer inhumane torture such as forced consumption of human excreta and urine, smudging of their faces, having their heads tonsured, being parading naked, and public stoning (Chandran, 2017; Kumar & Madhuri, 2021). From her empirical findings, Sindhuja Parthasarthy (2016) tells a real-life witch-hunting story in which a group of young men in their 20s murder a woman, supposedly a witch, and then surrender themselves to the police, saying, “[w]e are proud to have cleansed our village” (Parthasarthy, 2016, para.…”

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Colonial civilizing mission, Indigenous resistance, and witch-hunting in Anvita Dutt’s Bulbbul (2020)

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2023

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Shashank Sinha, in his research on the practice of witch-hunting in the Adivasi (Indigenous or tribal) community of Chhotanagpur, Bengal, India, infers that witch-hunting as a practice was infused with gender and anti-colonial tensions. Relying on his data and findings about the unexpected surge of witch-hunting among the Indigenous people of Chhotanagpur, this research conducts a discourse analysis of the film text of Anvita Dutt’s film Bulbbul (Nightingale) (2020). Bulbbul explores the clash between the conventional gender roles assigned to Indian women and evolving socio-cultural standards around the equality of rights for women in the late 19th century. The film is a feminist stance on the politics of labelling rebellious women as witches and removing them through motivated witch-hunting. Through a close reading of Bulbbul, this article concludes that witch-hunting is a conscious Indigenous resistance and cultural politics in response to colonial civilizing missions in India by the British.

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Colonial civilizing mission, Indigenous resistance, and witch-hunting in Anvita Dutt’s Bulbbul (2020)

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2023

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Witch-Hunting: A Mute Atrocity Against Indigenous Women

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Colonial civilizing mission, Indigenous resistance, and witch-hunting in Anvita Dutt’s Bulbbul (2020)

Colonial civilizing mission, Indigenous resistance, and witch-hunting in Anvita Dutt’s Bulbbul (2020)

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