01604nas a2200157   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003100001700044245005400061856015300115300001200268490000700280520113900287022002001426       2011                            d1 aD.J. Rycroft00aAfter-Images: Visual Cultures and Subaltern Pasts  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044020421&doi=10.1080%2f14714787.2011.609398&partnerID=40&md5=68b4a1a3e937412f034e67870950c2d2  a367-3860 v123 aIn February 1856, the Illustrated London News published a wood-cut print of Sido Murmu, a captured leader of an anti-colonial rebellion in India led by indigenous Santal headmen. Known as the Hul, this movement has been re-visited by exponents of subaltern historiography in an effort to understand insurgent consciousness, and the parameters of ‘minority’ history. Working across these parameters, this article employs a visual and historical ethnographic methodology, in order to question whether the interplay between colonial-era and post-independence representations of the Hul may inform a new understanding both of British scopic regimes and of Santal (tribal) and Adivasi (Indigenous) assertion in India. The concept of ‘after-image’ is used metaphorically, to trace how a seemingly imperialist portrait of Sido Murmu has assumed multiple afterlives. I question how these afterlives intersect with the intangible heritage of the Hul especially in the new state of Jharkhand (eastern-central India), to generate an approach to heterotopian encounters that has applicability in both visual studies and subaltern studies.  a14714787 (ISSN)