Reclaiming indigeneity and democracy in India's Jharkhand

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Basu, Ipshita (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples > India > Jharkhand > Politics and government.
Democracy > India > Jharkhand.
Democracy
Indigenous peoples > Politics and government
Politics and government
Politics & government.
Politics and Government.
Jharkhand (India) > Politics and government.
India > Jharkhand
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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

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