Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand
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9780198884675
Publication date:
17/01/2024
Hardback
240 pages
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ISBN:
9780198884675
Publication date:
17/01/2024
Hardback
240 pages
Ipshita Basu
This book is an timely account of indigenous politics and represents the first-ever attempt to foreground the complex 'political nature' of social justice claims-making in a democracy such as India.
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Ipshita Basu
Description
Created in 2000 after a lengthy regional campaign for a separate state, 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 environment as competing political groups have mobilized Indigenous subaltern communities for different ends. In Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India’s Jharkhand, Ipshita Basu contributes to scholarship on critical social justice and indigeneity by highlighting ‘relations of justification’ as a central feature of claims-making for social groups identifying as Indigenous in diverse ways. Specifically, the book focuses on reclaiming political recognition for Adivasis in the dynamic contemporary context of majoritarian populism and the market economy. Uniting perspectives from philosophy (social justice), politics (democracy and public reasoning), and culture studies (identity), and based on ethnographic and archival research, Basu indicates that when ‘relations’ are at the epicentre of claims-making, expressive attachments determine political activism rather than the instrumental choices that groups are compelled to make in the face of large power differentials. This book is an especially timely account of Indigenous politics and the first-ever attempt to foreground the complex political nature of social justice claims-making in a democracy such as India.
About the author:
Ipshita Basu is a political sociologist specialising in development justice for Indigenous communities and marginalised groups in contexts of change and conflict. Basu holds a PhD in International Development from the University of Bath and an MA from the University of Warwick. Currently, she is a Reader in Global Development at the University of Westminster's Centre for Study of Democracy. Prior to this, she was based at the University of Surrey and the BRAC University in Bangladesh.
Ipshita Basu
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Indigenous Subalterns and the 'Politics' of Recognition
Chapter 2 Relations of Justification and Democratic Structures
Chapter 3 The Politics of Names and Numbers in Jharkhand
Chapter 4 The Instrumental Politics of the Hindu Right in Jharkhand
Chapter 5 The Dilemmas of Regional Parties in Jharkhand
Chapter 6 Maoists and the Costs of Indigenous Subaltern Citizenship
Chapter 7 Conclusion
Ipshita Basu
Description
Created in 2000 after a lengthy regional campaign for a separate state, 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 environment as competing political groups have mobilized Indigenous subaltern communities for different ends. In Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India’s Jharkhand, Ipshita Basu contributes to scholarship on critical social justice and indigeneity by highlighting ‘relations of justification’ as a central feature of claims-making for social groups identifying as Indigenous in diverse ways. Specifically, the book focuses on reclaiming political recognition for Adivasis in the dynamic contemporary context of majoritarian populism and the market economy. Uniting perspectives from philosophy (social justice), politics (democracy and public reasoning), and culture studies (identity), and based on ethnographic and archival research, Basu indicates that when ‘relations’ are at the epicentre of claims-making, expressive attachments determine political activism rather than the instrumental choices that groups are compelled to make in the face of large power differentials. This book is an especially timely account of Indigenous politics and the first-ever attempt to foreground the complex political nature of social justice claims-making in a democracy such as India.
About the author:
Ipshita Basu is a political sociologist specialising in development justice for Indigenous communities and marginalised groups in contexts of change and conflict. Basu holds a PhD in International Development from the University of Bath and an MA from the University of Warwick. Currently, she is a Reader in Global Development at the University of Westminster's Centre for Study of Democracy. Prior to this, she was based at the University of Surrey and the BRAC University in Bangladesh.
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Indigenous Subalterns and the 'Politics' of Recognition
Chapter 2 Relations of Justification and Democratic Structures
Chapter 3 The Politics of Names and Numbers in Jharkhand
Chapter 4 The Instrumental Politics of the Hindu Right in Jharkhand
Chapter 5 The Dilemmas of Regional Parties in Jharkhand
Chapter 6 Maoists and the Costs of Indigenous Subaltern Citizenship
Chapter 7 Conclusion
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