The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
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TextSeries: South Asia in motionPublication details: California: Stanford University Press, 2016Description: xix, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN: 9780804796262Subject(s): Gorkha (South Asian people) -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Politics and government | Gorkha (South Asian people) -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Government relations | Gorkha (South Asian people) -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Ethnic identity | Ethnology -- Political aspects -- India -- Darjeeling (District) | Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- India -- Darjeeling (District) | Identity politics -- India -- Darjeeling (District) | Darjeeling (India : District) -- Scheduled tribes -- Government policyDDC classification: 301.095414
Contents:
Introduction : becoming tribal in Darjeeling : an introduction to the ethno-contemporary -- A searching politics : anxiety, belonging, recognition -- Durga and the rock : a colonial category and its discontents -- Tribal recognition : a postcolonial problem -- Interface : encounters of the multicultural state -- Soft science in hard places : government anthropologists and their knowledge -- Reforming the subject : the effects and affects of recognition -- Perpetuated paradigms : at the limits of ethno-intelligibility -- Epilogue : negotiating the ethno-contemporary.
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 301.095414 MID/D (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 050948 |
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Introduction : becoming tribal in Darjeeling : an introduction to the ethno-contemporary -- A searching politics : anxiety, belonging, recognition -- Durga and the rock : a colonial category and its discontents -- Tribal recognition : a postcolonial problem -- Interface : encounters of the multicultural state -- Soft science in hard places : government anthropologists and their knowledge -- Reforming the subject : the effects and affects of recognition -- Perpetuated paradigms : at the limits of ethno-intelligibility -- Epilogue : negotiating the ethno-contemporary.
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