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Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples—Ethnic identity [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—Social conditions [Browse]
• Group identity—India [Browse]
• India—Ethnic relations [Browse]
• India—Social conditions [Browse]

Related name

• Dasgupta, Sangeeta [Browse]
• Rycroft, Daniel J. [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 43. [More in this series]
• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 43 [More in this series]

Summary note

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

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 1-136-79114-0
• 1-283-10356-7
• 9786613103567
• 1-136-79115-9
• 0-203-82601-9

OCLC

• 764571818
• 727130297

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203826010

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