Reclaiming indigeneity and democracy in India's Jharkhand / Ipshita Basu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basu, Ipshita, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--India--Jharkhand--Politics and government.

Indigenous peoples.

Democracy--India--Jharkhand.

Democracy.

Jharkhand (India)--Politics and government.

Jharkhand (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Created in 2000 following a long-standing regional movement, Jharkhand - the land of forests - represents an important experiment in regional autonomy and self-determination for indigenous communities in a postcolonial democracy. Over two decades, Jharkhand has experienced a volatile political environment as competing political groups have mobilised indigenous subaltern communities for different ends. In 'Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand', Ipshita Basu contributes to scholarship on critical social justice and indigeneity by highlighting 'relations of justification' as a central feature of group-based claims-making for social groups identifying with indigeneity in diverse ways. Specifically, the book focuses on reclaiming political recognition for Adivasis within the contemporary dynamics of majoritarian populism and the market economy.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of illustrations

Introduction: Indigenous subalterns and the 'politics' of recognition

Bridging indigeneity and subalternity

Provincializing the 'politics' of recognition

Power as entanglements in social movement scholarship

Justice and the specificity of the political

Politics of recognition in the post-Socialist era: global and Indian trajectories

Evolving trajectories of recognition politics in India

Indigenous subalterns and approaches to the 'politics' of recognition

Party power and agency in Jharkhand's social structures

Instrumental choices vs expressive attachments

Understanding the nature of expressive attachments in Adivasi politics

The internal boundaries of expressive attachments

An overview of the book

1. Relations of justification and democratic structures

Unpacking the 'politics' of social justice claims-making

The trials of autonomy

The Jharkhand Movement and a normative critique of Adivasi rights

Essentialized identities and political bargaining

The political structure within which claims-making takes place

The grammar of political claims-making

The 'public' in public reason

Public reason and deliberative democracy

Public reason and the grammar of group-based claims-making in India

Conclusion

2. The politics of names and numbers

The contested politics of ethnic demography in Jharkhand

Counter-discourses on detribalizing Jharkhand

Detribalizing and the rise of the OBCs

Reclaiming ethnic demography

A brief overview of Jharkhand's ethnic geography

Ethnic demographic changes in the first decade of the Jharkhand state

The microcosm of ethnic group relations in Jharkhand

Bedo

Mussabani

Chattarpur

Hazaribagh

Sundarpahari and Pathargama.

Linking political party performance with ethnic demography in Jharkhand

Scheduled tribe constituencies

Scheduled caste constituencies

General constituencies

Strike rates and political party performance

3. The instrumental politics of the Hindu right in Jharkhand

Putting it all into context: the rise of the BJP in Jharkhand

The Sangh Parivar in Jharkhand

The Hindu right in tribal constituencies

The BJP after statehood: the (un)settling question, 'who is a Jharkhandi?'

Historicizing the Freedom of Religion Act: missionaries, nationalists, and the courts

Religious conversion in postcolonial India

Elite coalitions and 'marketized Hindutva'

State-level development projects

Community-level development projects

4. The dilemmas of the regional parties in Jharkhand

Expressive attachments since the state's formation

Surviving the odds: the JMM's transition from agrarian radicalism to regional politics

Agrarian radicalism in the era after Jaipal Singh

The JMM from the inside

Opportunists or opponents: the role of the JVM(P) and the AJSU(P)

Regional identity politics: past, present, and future trajectories

Jaipal Singh's cultural revanchism

Shibu Soren's agrarian radicalism

Hemant Soren's regional consolidation

Understanding expressive identification with the JMM

Martyrs and migrants

The domicile policy and new tropes of indigeneity

Taking back control: Adivasi representation in the bureaucratic state

Subaltern counterpublics in digital arenas

5. Maoism and the costs of Indigenous subaltern citizenship

From fleeting presence to settled roots: how Maoists entered Jharkhand

The impact of counter-insurgency action on Adivasi-Dalit citizenship

Counter-insurgency and Adivasi bare lives

The Adivasi-Dalit connection.

The connection between mineral deposits and underdevelopment

'These are not levies, these are taxes'

Regimes and revenues of militarized governance

Police modernization under Delhi's watch

Post-conflict development infrastructures

Conclusion: Towards relational indigeneity and claims of justice

Relationality vs the exclusive politics of recognition

Unpacking the relations of justification

Citizenship

Scales of governance

Political groupings

References

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 10, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-199369-7

0-19-888476-1

0-19-888477-X

OCLC:

1408968253