Middleton, Townsend,

The Demands of Recognition : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling / Townsend Middleton. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016. - xix, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. - South Asia in motion . - South Asia in motion. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.

Introduction : becoming tribal in Darjeeling : an introduction to the ethno-contemporary -- A searching politics : anxiety, belonging, recognition -- Durga and the rock : a colonial category and its discontents -- Tribal recognition : a postcolonial problem -- Interface : encounters of the multicultural state -- Soft science in hard places : government anthropologists and their knowledge -- Reforming the subject : the effects and affects of recognition -- Perpetuated paradigms : at the limits of ethno-intelligibility -- Epilogue : negotiating the ethno-contemporary.

9780804795425 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804796262 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Ethnography--Politics and government.--India--Darjeeling (District)

305.891496 / M584d