The Scheduled Tribes and Their India: Politics, Identities, Policies, and Work (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0199459711 ISBN 13: 9780199459711

Verlag: OUP India, 2016

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Reseña del editor:

A people in need of quick modernization and mainstreaming, or a powerful defense against the advancing march of capitalist growth―-these are the two most prominent and stereotypical images of Adivasis in contemporary India, and both do grave injustice to the ground realities. The category Scheduled Tribes, which is purely an administrative category, and does not reflect the immense diversity among the 500 different communities of tribals in India, comprising 8.6 per cent of Indias population, has acquired over a period of time, a distinct political and discursive salience. This collection of essays, divided in three parts, brings together a range of predominantly sociological and anthropological but broadly social science writing that reflects on and illuminates the jungle of dilemmas and conflicts that the scheduled tribes face as they navigate their way through everyday life. It highlights the enormity of social, cultural, linguistic, and politico-economic diversity among the so-called Scheduled Tribes in India, and aims to provide an intellectual platform for an engagement between the scheduled tribes and their India, as also to map the state of current sociological/anthropological writing and debate on the scheduled tribes.

Biografía del autor:

Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. T.N. Madan is Honorary Professor (Sociology) at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and Distinguished Fellow (Adjunct) of the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

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• Verlag: OUP India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0199459711
• ISBN 13: 9780199459711
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 650
• Herausgeber: Sundar Nandini, Madan