The Demands of Recognition : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling / Townsend Middleton.
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TextSeries: South Asia in motionPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016Description: xix, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780804796262
- Gorkha (South Asian people) -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Politics and government
- Gorkha (South Asian people) -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Government relations
- Gorkha (South Asian people) -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Ethnic identity
- Ethnology -- Political aspects -- India -- Darjeeling (District)
- Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- India -- Darjeeling (District)
- Identity politics -- India -- Darjeeling (District)
- Darjeeling (India : District) -- Scheduled tribes -- Government policy
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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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