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The politics of belonging in India : becoming Adivasi / edited by Daniel J. Rycroft and Sangeeta Dasgupta.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 43.
- Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 43
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indigenous peoples--Ethnic identity.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.
- Group identity--India.
- Group identity.
- India--Ethnic relations.
- India.
- Ethnic relations.
- India--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- 1 Indigenous pasts and the politics of belonging / Daniel J. Rycroft Rycroft, Daniel J., Sangeeta Dasgupta Dasgupta, Sangeeta 1
- Part 1 Contesting categories, blurring boundaries 15
- 2 The dangers of belonging: tribes, indigenous peoples and homelands in South Asia / Willem Van Schendel Schendel, Willem Van 19
- 3 Performative genres as boundary markers: folklore and the creation of Purulia as a border zone / Roma Chatterji Chatterji, Roma 44
- Part II Revisiting resistance 59
- 4 Rebellion as modern self fashioning: a Santal movement in colonial Bengal / Tanika Sarkar Sarkar, Tanika 65
- 5 Reconstructing an event: the Great Rebellion of 1857-8 and Singhbhum Indigenes / Asoka Kumar Sen Sen, Asoka Kumar 82
- Part III Landscape and Adivasi agency 97
- 6 Customary rights and resistance in the forests of Singhbhum / Vinita Damodaran Damodaran, Vinita 103
- 7 Standpoints and intersections: towards an indigenist epistemology / Darley Jose Kjosavik Kjosavik, Darley Jose 119
- Part IV Politics, participation and recognition 137
- 8 Sovereignty through indigenous governance: reviving 'traditional political institutions' in Northeast India / Bengt G. Karlsson Karlsson, Bengt G. 141
- 9 Aid, Adivasis and aspirations for development in western India / David Mosse Mosse, David 154
- 10 Politics, development and identity: Jharkhand, 1991-2009 / Amit Prakash Prakash, Amit 175
- Part V Mainstreams and margins 191
- 11 Using the past to win the present: peasant revolt, political parties and the print media in leftist West Bengal / Abhijit Guha Guha, Abhijit 199
- 12 Who cares for a new state? The imaginary institution of Jharkhand / Alpa Shah Shah, Alpa 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415600828
- 0415600820
- 9780203826010
- 0203826019
- OCLC:
- 666573628
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