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Adivasi Activists
Adivasi Assertion
Adivasi Identities
Adivasi Movement
Adivasi Subjectivities
Autonomous District Council
Bhil Villagers
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Indian Forest Act
Insurgent Pasts
Jawaharlal Nehru
jharkhand
Jharkhand Movement
Jharkhand State
Jharkhandi Regionalism
JHP
Jungle Mahals
movement
Northeast India
Paschim Medinipur District
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PESA
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Santal Hul
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State Secretary
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Tribal Studies
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West Bengal
Product details
- ISBN 9780415600828
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 Mar 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in postcolonial India and defines a new agenda for Adivasi studies. It considers the existing conceptual and historical parameters of Tribal studies, as a means of addressing new approaches to histories of de-colonization and patterns of identity-formation that have become visible since national independence. Contributors address a number of important concerns, including the meaning of Indigenous studies in the context of globalised academic and political imaginaries, and the possibilities and pitfalls of constructions of indigeneity as both a foundational and a relational concept. A series of short editorial essays provide theoretical clarity to issues of representation, resistance, agency, recognition and marginality. The book is an essential read for students and scholars of Indian Sociology, Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies and Indigenous studies.
Daniel J. Rycroft is Lecturer in South Asian Arts and Cultures at the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, UK.
Sangeeta Dasgupta is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
