Demands of recognition (Record no. 63990)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780804796262
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Opposite Eye 7, Ansari Road, New Delhi.
Bill Number : TB752
Bill Date : 21/06/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 301.095 MID
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Middleton, Townsend.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Demands of recognition
Remainder of title : State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Townsend Middleton.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Stanford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Stanford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 278p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 1991
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and secure political rights.<br/><br/>In this groundbreaking study, Townsend Middleton tracks these newfound "lives" of anthropology. Offering simultaneous ethnographies of the people of Darjeeling's quest for "tribal" status and the government anthropologists handling their claims, Middleton exposes how minorities are―and are not―recognized for affirmative action and autonomy. We encounter communities putting on elaborate spectacles of sacrifice, exorcism, bows and arrows, and blood drinking to prove their "primitiveness" and "backwardness." Conversely, we see government anthropologists struggle for the ethnographic truth as communities increasingly turn academic paradigms back upon the state.<br/><br/>The Demands of Recognition offers a compelling look at the escalating politics of tribal recognition in India. At once ethnographic and historical, it chronicles how multicultural governance has motivated the people of Darjeeling to ethnologically redefine themselves―from Gorkha to tribal and back. But as these communities now know, not all forms of difference are legible in the eyes of the state. The Gorkhas' search for recognition has only amplified these communities' anxieties about who they are―and who they must be―if they are to attain the rights, autonomy, and belonging they desire.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anthropology
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethnopolitics
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element darjeeling
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Middleton Townsend
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