Contents: Preface. 1. Invisibility, Social Exclusion, Survival: Tribals and the Untouchables/Dalits in Orissa. 2. The Rhythms of Change and Devastation: Colonial Capitalism and the World of the Socially Excluded, c. 1800–1920. 3. The Tribals and Outcastes Hit Back: Survival as Resistance in the Nineteenth Century. 4. Health Matters: Exploring the World of the Tribals and Outcastes/Dalits. 5. Rituals of Legitimacy: Caste/Hegemony/Counter-Hegemony, c. 1800–1940. Alternative Visions: Communists and the State People’s Movement, Nilgiri 1937–48. Select Bibliography. Index. Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic survival strategies of these groups are often overlooked in research. The fact that excluded groups have managed to survive has, hidden right beneath the surface, a whole range of complexities, while also demonstrating their ability to resist dominant social orders. Biswamoy Pati’s posthumous volume on the lives of the tribals and dalits/outcastes in Orissa, from c. 1800 to 1950, shows how such communities were further impoverished by both colonial government policies and the chiefs of the despotic princely states. Colonial knowledge systems, constructions of the ‘criminal tribe’, and agrarian settlements affected tribals and dalits crucially. These marginalized groups were connected with the national movement. However, their inherited problems remained unresolved even after Independence. Examining these and several other issues such as adivasi strategies of resistance, indigenous systems of health and medicine, the colonial ‘medical gaze’, conversion (to Hinduism), the fluidities of caste formation, as well as the development of colonial capitalism and urbanization, the author presents a broader view of their struggle and endurance.