Indigeneity In India

Author : Bengt T. Karlsson,T.B. Subba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136219221

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Indigeneity In India by Bengt T. Karlsson,T.B. Subba Pdf

First published in 2006. Who and what are the 'indigenous people'? 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 a part of struggle for recognition and rights in land and resources. This volume interrogates the politics surrounding the category of peoples in India known as 'tribals' or 'adivasis' and more recently 'indigenous peoples'.

Author : Asoka Kumar Sen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351611862

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Indigeneity, Landscape and History by Asoka Kumar Sen Pdf

This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected historical moments and representations of being, becoming and belonging, it situates the content and complexities of Adivasi self-fashioning in contemporary times, and discusses constructions of selfhood, diaspora, homeland, environment and ecology, political structures, state, marginality, development, alienation and rights. Drawing on a range of historical sources – from recorded oral traditions and village histories to contemporary Adivasi self-narratives – the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology and social anthropology, tribal and indigenous studies and politics.

Author : Darley Jose Kjosavik,Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317548492

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Political Economy of Development in India by Darley Jose Kjosavik,Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam Pdf

In the Global South, indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down, and often violent, processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the development dilemmas of the indigenous people (adivasis) of the Indian state of Kerala. It explores the different facets of change in their lives and livelihoods in the context of modernisation under different political regimes. As part of the Indian Union, Kerala followed a development approach in tune with the Government of India with regard to indigenous communities. However, within the framework of India’s quasi-federal polity, the state of Kerala has been tracing a development path of its own, which has come to be known as the ‘Kerala model of development’. Adopting a historical political economic approach, the book locates the adivasi communities in the larger contextual shifts from late colonialism through the post-independence years, and critically analyses the Kerala model of development with particular reference to the adivasis’ changing political status and rights to land. It pays special attention to policy dynamics in the neoliberal phase, and the actual practices of decentralisation as a way of including the socially excluded and marginalised. Offering a theoretical elaboration of the interaction between class and indigeneity based on intensive fieldwork in Kerala, the book addresses adivasi development in relation to the general development experience of Kerala, and goes on to relate this particular study to the global context of indigenous people’s struggles. It will be of interest to those working in the fields of South Asian Development, Political Economy and South Asian Politics.

Author : Maximilian C. Forte
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802095527

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Who is an Indian? by Maximilian C. Forte Pdf

Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing principles of governance and law. For centuries, the dominant views on this issue have been strongly shaped by ideas of both race and place. But just as important, who is permitted to ask, and answer this question? This collection examines the changing roles of race and place in the politics of defining Indigenous identities in the Americas. Drawing on case studies of Indigenous communities across North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, it is a rare volume to compare Indigenous experience throughout the western hemisphere. The contributors question the vocabulary, legal mechanisms, and applications of science in constructing the identities of Indigenous populations, and consider ideas of nation, land, and tradition in moving indigeneity beyond race.

Author : Pooja Parmar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Customary law
ISBN : 1316407896

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Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India by Pooja Parmar Pdf

As calls for reparations to indigenous peoples grow on every continent, issues around resource extraction and dispossession raise complex legal questions. What do these disputes mean to those affected? How do the narratives of indigenous people, legal professionals, and the media intersect? In this richly layered and nuanced account, Pooja Parmar focuses on indigeneity in the widely publicized controversy over a Coca-Cola bottling facility in Kerala, India. Juxtaposing popular, legal, and Adivasi narratives, Parmar examines how meanings are gained and lost through translation of complex claims into the languages of social movements and formal legal systems. Included are perspectives of the diverse range of actors involved, based on interviews with members of Adivasi communities, social activists, bureaucrats, politicians, lawyers, and judges. Presented in clear, accessible prose, Parmar's account of translation enriches debates in the fields of legal pluralism, indigeneity, and development.

Author : Kedilezo Kikhi,Amiya Kumar Das,Piyashi Dutta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000905847

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Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State by Kedilezo Kikhi,Amiya Kumar Das,Piyashi Dutta Pdf

Whatever be the definition of 'indigenous' vis-a-vis 'indigeneity', and however concensual it might be, both these terms have been inferred, applied and questioned in multifarious ways. The concept indigeneity in Asia has transformed considerably, over a period of time. With the rise in the indigeneity movement and large-scale migration, citizenship within national borders is challenged, and the borders in question are also contested. This book chronicles the discernible strains on the questions of indegeneity, citizenship, identity, and border making in the Northeast India. The issues pertaining to indigeneity, citizenship, and state, are also a reminder of the residues of colonial doings that have had a colossal impact till this day. Through empirical evidence backed by theoretical underpinnings, each essay in the book demonstrates the diversity of approaches that can be used to interrogate the debate on indegeneity, citizenship, the state, and opens the conversation on Northeast India. This book is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Author : Maxmillian C. Forte
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442668003

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Who is an Indian? by Maxmillian C. Forte Pdf

Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing principles of governance and law. For centuries, the dominant views on this issue have been strongly shaped by ideas of both race and place. But just as important, who is permitted to ask, and answer this question? This collection examines the changing roles of race and place in the politics of defining Indigenous identities in the Americas. Drawing on case studies of Indigenous communities across North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, it is a rare volume to compare Indigenous experience throughout the western hemisphere. The contributors question the vocabulary, legal mechanisms, and applications of science in constructing the identities of Indigenous populations, and consider ideas of nation, land, and tradition in moving indigeneity beyond race.

Author : Eva Gerharz,Nasir Uddin,Pradeep Chakkarath
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337239

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Indigeneity on the Move by Eva Gerharz,Nasir Uddin,Pradeep Chakkarath Pdf

“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, exploring the dependence of indigeneity on varying sociopolitical contexts, actors, and discourses with the ultimate goal of investigating the concept’s scientific and political potential.

Author : Angma Dey Jhala
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199096916

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An Endangered History by Angma Dey Jhala Pdf

An Endangered History examines the transcultural, colonial history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, c. 1798–1947. This little-studied borderland region lies on the crossroads of Bangladesh, India, and Burma and is inhabited by several indigenous peoples. They observe a diversity of religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, animism, and Christianity; speak Tibeto-Burmese dialects intermixed with Persian and Bengali idioms; and practise jhum or slash-and-burn agriculture. This book investigates how British administrators from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries used European systems of knowledge, such as botany, natural history, gender, enumerative statistics, and anthropology, to construct these indigenous communities and their landscapes. In the process, they connected the region to a dynamic, global map, and classified its peoples through the reifying language of religion, linguistics, race, and nation.

Author : Birinder Pal Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000699777

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Indigeneity and Occupational Change by Birinder Pal Singh Pdf

This book is about the presence of the absent— the tribes of Punjab, India, many of them still nomadic, constituting the poorest of the poor in the state. Drawing on exhaustive fieldwork and ethnographic accounts of more than 750 respondents, it explores the occupational change across generations to prove their presence in the state before the Criminal Tribes Act was implemented in 1871. The archival reports reveal the atrocities unleashed by the colonial government on these people. The volume shows how the post-colonial government too has proved no different; it has done little to bring them into the mainstream society by not exploiting their traditional expertise or equipping them with modern skills. This book will be of great interest to scholars of sociology, social anthropology, social history, public policy, development studies, tribal communities and South Asian studies.

Author : G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000192131

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Indigeneity and Nation by G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis Pdf

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. The book, the third in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of indigeneity and nation of indigenous people from all the continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts across the globe, it looks at issues and ideas of indigeneity, nationhood, nationality, State, identity, selfhood, constitutionalism, and citizenship in Africa, North America, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and Oceania, India, and Southeast Asia from philosophical, cultural, historical and literary points of view. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book with its wide coverage will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, literary and postcolonial studies, Third World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities.

Author : Daniel J. Rycroft,Sangeeta Dasgupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136791154

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The Politics of Belonging in India by Daniel J. Rycroft,Sangeeta Dasgupta Pdf

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 independence. Contributors address a number of important concerns, including the meaning of Indigenous studies in the context of globalised academic and political imaginaries, and the possibilities and pitfalls of constructions of indigeneity as both a foundational and a relational concept. A series of short editorial essays provide theoretical clarity to issues of representation, resistance, agency, recognition and marginality. The book is an essential read for students and scholars of Indian Sociology, Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies and Indigenous studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9350027259

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Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Shulist
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487516215

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Transforming Indigeneity by Sarah Shulist Pdf

Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of the region shed light on both global issues of language revitalization and on the meaning of Indigeneity in contemporary Brazil. With 19 Indigenous languages still spoken today, São Gabriel is characterized by a high proportion of Indigenous people and an extraordinary amount of linguistic diversity. Shulist investigates what it means to be Indigenous in this setting of urbanization, multilingualism, and state intervention, and how that relates to the use and transmission of Indigenous languages. Drawing on perspectives from Indigenous and non-Indigenous political leaders, educators, students, and state agents, and by examining the experiences of urban populations, Transforming Indigeneity provides insight on the revitalization of Amazonian Indigenous languages amidst large social change.

Author : Pooja Parmar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Adivasis
ISBN : 1316407748

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Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India by Pooja Parmar Pdf