The Demands of Recognition : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling /
Middleton, Townsend.
The Demands of Recognition : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling / Townsend Middleton. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016] - xix, 278 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - South Asia in motion .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
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.
9780804795425 9780804796262
Gorkha (South Asian people) --Politics and government.--India --Darjeeling (District)
Gorkha (South Asian people) --Government relations.--India --Darjeeling (District)
Gorkha (South Asian people) --Ethnic identity.--India --Darjeeling (District)
Ethnology --Political aspects --India --Darjeeling (District)
Ethnicity --Political aspects --India --Darjeeling (District)
Identity politics --India --Darjeeling (District)
Darjeeling (India : District) --Scheduled tribes --Government policy.
301.095414 / De
The Demands of Recognition : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling / Townsend Middleton. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016] - xix, 278 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - South Asia in motion .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
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.
9780804795425 9780804796262
Gorkha (South Asian people) --Politics and government.--India --Darjeeling (District)
Gorkha (South Asian people) --Government relations.--India --Darjeeling (District)
Gorkha (South Asian people) --Ethnic identity.--India --Darjeeling (District)
Ethnology --Political aspects --India --Darjeeling (District)
Ethnicity --Political aspects --India --Darjeeling (District)
Identity politics --India --Darjeeling (District)
Darjeeling (India : District) --Scheduled tribes --Government policy.
301.095414 / De