Reclaiming indigeneity and democracy in India's Jharkhand / Ipshita Basu.
Created in 2000 following a long-standing regional movement, Jharkhand - the land of forests - represents an important experiment in regional autonomy and self-determination for indigenous communities in a postcolonial democracy. Over two decades, Jharkhand has experienced a volatile political envir...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Introduction: Indigenous subalterns and the 'politics' of recognition
- Bridging indigeneity and subalternity
- Provincializing the 'politics' of recognition
- Power as entanglements in social movement scholarship
- Justice and the specificity of the political
- Politics of recognition in the post-Socialist era: global and Indian trajectories
- Evolving trajectories of recognition politics in India
- Indigenous subalterns and approaches to the 'politics' of recognition. Party power and agency in Jharkhand's social structures
- Instrumental choices vs expressive attachments
- Understanding the nature of expressive attachments in Adivasi politics
- The internal boundaries of expressive attachments
- An overview of the book
- 1. Relations of justification and democratic structures
- Unpacking the 'politics' of social justice claims-making
- The trials of autonomy
- The Jharkhand Movement and a normative critique of Adivasi rights
- Essentialized identities and political bargaining
- The political structure within which claims-making takes place. The grammar of political claims-making
- The 'public' in public reason
- Public reason and deliberative democracy
- Public reason and the grammar of group-based claims-making in India
- Conclusion
- 2. The politics of names and numbers
- The contested politics of ethnic demography in Jharkhand
- Counter-discourses on detribalizing Jharkhand
- Detribalizing and the rise of the OBCs
- Reclaiming ethnic demography
- A brief overview of Jharkhand's ethnic geography
- Ethnic demographic changes in the first decade of the Jharkhand state. The microcosm of ethnic group relations in Jharkhand
- Bedo
- Mussabani
- Chattarpur
- Hazaribagh
- Sundarpahari and Pathargama
- Linking political party performance with ethnic demography in Jharkhand
- Scheduled tribe constituencies
- Scheduled caste constituencies
- General constituencies
- Strike rates and political party performance
- Conclusion
- 3. The instrumental politics of the Hindu right in Jharkhand
- Putting it all into context: the rise of the BJP in Jharkhand
- The Sangh Parivar in Jharkhand
- The Hindu right in tribal constituencies. The BJP after statehood: the (un)settling question, 'who is a Jharkhandi?'
- Historicizing the Freedom of Religion Act: missionaries, nationalists, and the courts
- Religious conversion in postcolonial India
- Elite coalitions and 'marketized Hindutva'
- State-level development projects
- Community-level development projects
- Conclusion
- 4. The dilemmas of the regional parties in Jharkhand
- Expressive attachments since the state's formation
- Surviving the odds: the JMM's transition from agrarian radicalism to regional politics
- Agrarian radicalism in the era after Jaipal Singh.The JMM from the inside
- Opportunists or opponents: the role of the JVM (P) and the AJSU (P)
- Regional identity politics: past, present, and future trajectories
- Understanding expressive identification with the JMM
- Subaltern counterpublics in digital arenas
- Conclusion
- 5. Maoism and the costs of Indigenous subaltern citizenship
- Conclusion: Towards relational indigeneity and claims of justice
- References/Index.