The Violence of Recognition : Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India / Pinky Hota.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hota, Pinky, author.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence.

The Ethnography of Political Violence Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adiwasi Garasia (Indic people).

Christianity and other religions--Hinduism.

Christianity and other religions.

Dalits.

Hinduism--Relations--Christianity.

Hinduism.

Nationalism--India.

Nationalism.

India--Race relations.

India.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2024]

Summary:

The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the largest incident of anti-Christian violence in India's history. Through vivid ethnographic storytelling, Pinky Hota explores the roots of ethnonationalist conflict between two historically marginalized groups-the Kandha, who are Adivasi (tribal people considered indigenous in India), and the Paana, a community of Christian Dalits (previously referred to as "untouchables"). Hota documents how Hindutva mobilization led to large-scale violence, culminating in attacks against many thousands of Paana Dalits in the district of Kandhamal in 2008.Bringing indigenous studies as well as race and ethnic studies into conversation with Dalit studies, Hota shows that, despite attempts to frame these ethnonationalist tensions as an indigenous population's resistance against disenfranchisement, Kandha hostility against the Paana must be understood as anti-Christian, anti-Dalit violence animated by racial capitalism. Hota's analysis of caste in relation to race and religion details how Hindu nationalists exploit the singular and exclusionary legal recognition of Adivasis and the putatively liberatory, anti-capitalist discourse of indigeneity in order to justify continued oppression of Dalits-particularly those such as the Paana. Because the Paana lost their legal protection as recognized minorities (Scheduled Caste) upon conversion to Christianity, they struggle for recognition within the Indian state's classificatory scheme. Within the framework of recognition, Hota shows, indigeneity works as a political technology that reproduces the political, economic, and cultural exclusion of landless marginalized groups such as Dalits. The Violence of Recognition reveals the violent implications of minority recognition in creating and maintaining hierarchies of racial capitalism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Maps

Introduction

Chapter 1. Crafting Indigeneity and Its Other

Chapter 2. Recognition Without Redistribution

Chapter 3. Duplicitous Dalits

Chapter 4. Adivasi as Hindu

Chapter 5. Sacred Land, Sacred Nation

Chapter 6. Carnality of Capital

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781512824865

1512824860

OCLC:

1396065381