The Politics of Belonging in India by Daniel J. Rycroft

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Material type: BookSeries: Routledge contemporary South. 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. Politics of belonging in India: becoming adivasi by Daniel J. The book is an essential read for students and scholars of Indian Sociology, Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies and Indigenous studies. Get FREE shipping on The Politics of Belonging in India by Daniel J.

A series of short editorial essays provide theoretical clarity to issues of representation, resistance, agency, recognition and marginality.

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.Ĭontributors 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. Sangeeta Dasgupta 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. Rycroft), Routledge, London and New York, 2011. 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. The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi (with D.J. 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.

The Politics of Belonging in India by Daniel J. Rycroft