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Who and what are ‘indigenous peoples’? The question has become highly contentious in India today, where eighty million peoples belonging to the state category of ‘scheduled tribes’ are attempting to gain international recognition as indigenous people, as part of their struggle for recognition and rights in land and resources. Opponents argue that the term ‘indigenous people’ is a misnomer that will lead to further division and ethnic animosity in a country already suffering from community divisions, and social conflict. This volume interrogates the politics surrounding the category of peoples in India known as ‘’tribals’ or ‘adivasis’ and more recently as ‘indigenous peoples’. It analyses the way in which this category is being constituted and labelled, and examines the rights and present predicament of communities designated as such. The work is organised in three sections dealing with conceptual and theoretical issues; with case studies in India; and with comparisons with indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia, America and Australia.
The Editors
Dr Bengt G. Karlsson is Director, Nordic Centre in India, and Dr Tanka B. Subba is Professor of Social Anthropology & Head, Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University, India.
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| Format: 156 x 234 mm
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| Binding: hardcover
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| Pages: 250 pp
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| ISBN: 0-7103-1210-5
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| Subject:
India, 'Indigenous Peoples',
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| Series / Library: Anthropology, Economy and Society
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CONTENTS
1. Introduction
BENGT G. KARLSSON AND TANKA B. SUBBA
Part I Conceptual
2. What Should We Mean by ’Indigenous People’?
ANDRE BÉTEILLE
3. The Politics of Being ’Indigenous’
AMITA BAVISKAR
4. Anthropology and the ’Indigenous Slot’: Claims to and Debates about Indigenous Peoples’ Status in India
BENGT G. KARLSSON
5. Tribal, Caste and the Indigenous Challenge in India
TIPLUT NONGBRI
Part II Cases
6. We are Van Gujjars
PERNILLE GOOCH
7. ’Sons and Daughters of India’: Ladakh’s Reluctant Tribes
MARTIJN VAN BEEK
8. Indigenising the Limbus: Trajectory of a Nation Divided into Two Nation-States
TANKA B. SUBBA
9. The Aboriginal Toda: On Indigeneity, Exclusivism and Privileged Access to Land in the Niligiri Hills, South India
GUNNEL CEDERLÖF AND DEBORAH SUTTON
Part III Comparisons
10. Self-Government, Indigeneity and Cultural Authencity: A Comparative Study of India and the United States
SELMA K. SONNTAG
11. Indigenous Peoples in Insular Southeast Asia: Definitions and Discourse in Indonesia and the Philippines
GERARD A. PERSOON
12. Politics Unlimited: The Global Adivasi and the Debate About the Political
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY
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