ISBN:
978-1-108-49653-7
,
1-108-49653-9
Language:
English
Pages:
xxii, 307 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen, Karten.
Series Statement:
South Asia in the social sciences 7
Series Statement:
South Asia in the social sciences
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.89147
Keywords:
India
;
Geschichte 1980-2000
;
Adivasis / India / Social conditions
;
Indigenous peoples / Government policy / India
;
Adivasis / India / Politics and government
;
Hegemony / India
;
Caste / India
;
Political culture / India
;
Social movements / India
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
;
Adivasis / Politics and government
;
Adivasis / Social conditions
;
Caste
;
Hegemony
;
Indigenous peoples / Government policy
;
Political culture
;
Social movements
;
Bhil.
;
Soziale Bewegung.
;
Politische Kultur.
;
Madhya Pradesh.
;
Electronic books
;
Bhil
;
Soziale Bewegung
;
Politische Kultur
;
Geschichte 1980-2000
Abstract:
"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"--
