The politics of belonging in India : becoming Adivasi / / edited by Daniel J. Rycroft and Sangeeta Dasgupta

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800954
• Soggetto topico: Adivasis - Ethnic identity; Adivasis - Social conditions; Group identity - India
• Soggetto geografico: India Ethnic relations; India Social conditions
• Altri autori: DasguptaSangeeta RycroftDaniel J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Contesting categories, blurring boundaries -- pt. 2. Revisiting resistance -- pt. 3. Landscape and Adivasi agency -- pt. 4. Politics, and participation and recognition -- pt. 5. Mainstreams and margins.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 inde
• Titolo autorizzato: The politics of belonging in India
• ISBN: 1-136-79114-0; 1-283-10356-7; 9786613103567; 1-136-79115-9; 0-203-82601-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799913103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 43.