Resistance as negotiation : making states and tribes in the margins of modern India / Uday Chandra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chandra, Uday (Political scientist), author.

Series:

South Asia in Motion Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government, Resistance to--India--History.

Government, Resistance to.

India--Scheduled tribes--Politics and government.

India.

India--Politics and government--1765-1947.

India--Politics and government--1947-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

""Tribes" appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts of resistance and rebellion by groups designated as "tribal" have fascinated as well as perplexed administrators and scholars in South Asia and beyond. Tribal resistance and rebellion are held to be tragic yet heroic political acts by "subaltern" groups confronting omnipotent states. By contrast, this book draws on fifteen years of archival and ethnographic research to argue that statemaking is intertwined inextricably with the politics of tribal resistance in the margins of modern India. Uday Chandra demonstrates how the modern Indian state and its tribal or adivasi subjects have made and remade each other throughout the colonial and postcolonial eras, historical processes of modern statemaking shaping and being shaped by myriad forms of resistance by tribal subjects. Accordingly, tribal resistance, whether peaceful or violent, is better understood vis-à-vis negotiations with the modern state, rather than its negation, over the past two centuries. How certain people and places came to be seen as "tribal" in modern India is, therefore, tied intimately to how "tribal" subjects remade their customs and community in the course of negotiations with colonial and postcolonial states. Ultimately, the empirical material unearthed in this book requires rethinking and rewriting the political history of modern India from its "tribal" margins"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The ancien régime, or when margins were not margins

Colonial paternalism and the making of the modern tribal subject

Tribal resistance and rebellion

Reconstituting tribal margins in colonial India

From the colonial to the postcolonial

The postcolonial developmental state and the modern tribal subject

Tribal resistance and rebellion revisited

Remaking the postcolonial state from above and below.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781503639157

1503639150

OCLC:

1432589747