The Politics of Belonging in India by Daniel J. Rycroft

Rycroft, Sangeeta Dasgupta Edition 1st Edition First Published 2011 eBook Published 29 March 2011 Pub. Rycroft is Lecturer in South Asian Arts and Cultures at the School of. Sangeeta and RYCROFT, Daniel J., The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi. The book is an essential read for students and scholars of Indian Sociology, Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies and Indigenous studies. The Politics of Belonging in India book Becoming Adivasi Edited ByDaniel J. Eighteenth Century in Indian History, New Delhi 2003, pp. Click here to navigate to parent product. A series of short editorial essays provide theoretical clarity to issues of representation, resistance, agency, recognition and marginality. DOI link for Indigenous pasts and the politics of belonging. Contributors 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. 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. 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. 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