The demands of recognition : state anthropology and ethnopolitics in Darjeeling /
Townsend Middleton.
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- South Asia in motion .
- South Asia in motion. .
Includes bibliographical references 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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Ethnology--Political aspects--India--Darjeeling (District) Ethnicity--Political aspects--India--Darjeeling (District) Identity politics--India--Darjeeling (District) SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--General. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Regional Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--General. Ethnicity--Political aspects. Ethnology--Political aspects. Identity politics.