The Politics of Belonging in India by Daniel J. Rycroft

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. The book is an essential read for students and scholars of Indian Sociology, Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies and Indigenous studies. Rycroft and Sangeeta Dasgupta represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. A series of short editorial essays provide theoretical clarity to issues of representation, resistance, agency, recognition and marginality. The item The politics of belonging in India : becoming Adivasi, edited by Daniel J. 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. Editions for The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi: 0415600820 (Hardcover published in 2011), 0415748682 (Paperback published in 2013), 02. 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.Ĭontributors 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. 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.

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