The Demands of Recognition : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling /
Townsend Middleton.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016
- xix, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- South Asia in motion .
- South Asia in motion. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
Introduction : becoming tribal in Darjeeling : an introduction to the ethno-contemporary -- A searching politics : anxiety, belonging, recognition -- Durga and the rock : a colonial category and its discontents -- Tribal recognition : a postcolonial problem -- Interface : encounters of the multicultural state -- Soft science in hard places : government anthropologists and their knowledge -- Reforming the subject : the effects and affects of recognition -- Perpetuated paradigms : at the limits of ethno-intelligibility -- Epilogue : negotiating the ethno-contemporary.
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Gorkha (South Asian people)--Politics and government.--India--Darjeeling (District) Gorkha (South Asian people)--Government relations.--India--Darjeeling (District) Gorkha (South Asian people)--Ethnic identity.--India--Darjeeling (District) Ethnology--Political aspects--India--Darjeeling (District) Ethnicity--Political aspects--India--Darjeeling (District) Identity politics--India--Darjeeling (District)