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1 online resource |
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South Asia in the social sciences ; 7 |
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South Asia in the social sciences ; 7.
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| Contents |
Cover; Adivasis and the State; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps, Figures, and Tables; Glossary of Hindi Terms; Preface; 1. Introduction; Theoretical Orientations; Structure of the Book; Part I: Subalternity; 2. 'So Much Fear Was Inside Us: 'Everyday Tyranny in the Bhil Heartland; The Anatomy of Everyday Tyranny; The Local Rationalities of Everyday Tyranny; Concluding Remarks; 3. 'Quiet and Obedient Cultivators': Colonial State Space and the Origins of Everyday Tyranny; Transforming the Economic Geography: Sedentarisation and Forest Enclosures |
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Consolidating State Power: Settlement, Pacification, and Infrastructural PowerConcluding Remarks; 4. 'You Are Now the Masters of the Country': Negotiations and Consolidations; Early Bhil Resistance: Khandesh, 1818-1823; Raids, Petitions, Uprisings: Bhil Resistance in Mewar, 1820s-1880s; Dhar, Badwani, Alirajpur: Bhil Resistance in Malwa and Nimad, 1830s-1880s; Govind Giri, Motilal Tejawat, and Bhil Raj: Dungarpur and Mewar, 1910s-1920s; Postcolonial Consolidations: Politics and Power in Western Madhya Pradesh after 1947; Concluding Remarks; Part II: Citizenship |
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5. 'The Fears Have Gone Away': Making Oppositional Local RationalitiesCatalytic Events and the Moral Courage to Resist; Reciprocal Emotions and the Making of Bhil Resistance; Concluding Remarks; 6. 'We Are the Ones Who Make the Sarkar': Law, Civil Society, and Citizenship in Subaltern Politics; Law; Civil Society; Citizenship; Concluding Remarks; 7. 'They Have Weakened Us': Deciphering the Politics of Coercion; Routine Coercion; Quelling the Sangathan; State Power, Civil Society, and the Politics of Coercion; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"In Adivasis and the State, Alf Gunvald Nilsen presents a major study of how subalternity is both constituted and contested through state-society relations in the Bhil heartland of western India. The book unravels the historical processes that subordinated Bhil Adivasi communities to the everyday tyranny of the state and investigates how social movements have mobilised to reclaim citizenship. In doing so, the book also reveals how collective action from below transform the meanings of governmental categories, legal frameworks, and universalising vocabularies of democracy. At the core of the book lies a concern with understanding the dialectics of power and resistance that give form and direction to the political economy of democracy and development in contemporary India. Towards this end, Adivasis and the State contributes a sustained and nuanced Gramscian analysis of hegemony in order to interrogate the possibilities and limits of subaltern political engagement with state structures"-- Provided by publisher |
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"In Adivasis and the State, Alf Gunvald Nilsen presents a major study of how subalternity is both constituted and contested through state-society relations in the Bhil heartland of western India. The book unravels the historical processes that subordinated Bhil Adivasi communities to the everyday tyranny of the state and investigates how social movements have mobilised to reclaim citizenship. In doing so, the book also reveals how collective action from below transform the meanings of governmental categories, legal frameworks, and universalising vocabularies of democracy. At the core of the book lies a concern with understanding the dialectics of power and resistance that give form and direction to the political economy of democracy and development in contemporary India. Towards this end, Adivasis and the State contributes a sustained and nuanced Gramscian analysis of hegemony in order to interrogate the possibilities and limits of subaltern political engagement with state structures. A fine-grained and engaged historical ethnography of the making of subalternity and citizenship in Adivasi communities in rural India Develops and deploys an innovative Gramscian approach to the study of how subalternity is constituted and contested in state-society relations The book is written in an engaging style that will be accessible to non-specialist readers and a wide readership beyond the disciplinary confines of South Asia studies"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 1, 2018) |
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Indigenous peoples -- India -- Social conditions
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Indigenous peoples -- Government policy -- India
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Indigenous peoples -- India -- Politics and government
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Hegemony -- India
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Caste -- India.
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Political culture -- India
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Social movements -- India.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government.
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Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions.
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Caste.
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Hegemony.
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Indigenous peoples -- Government policy.
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Political culture.
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Social movements.
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India.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108759014 |
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1108759017 |
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9781108678025 |
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1108678025 |
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