Middleton, Townsend,

The demands of recognition : state anthropology and ethnopolitics in Darjeeling / Townsend Middleton. - 1 online resource - 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.


Darjeeling (India : District)--Scheduled tribes--Government policy.
India--Darjeeling (District)


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

DS432.G87

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