The Demands of Recognition : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling / Townsend Middleton.
By: Middleton, Townsend [author.].
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Text Language of document:EnglishSeries: Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]Description: xix, 278 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780804795425; 9780804796262.Subject(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 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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