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028			_a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. _b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, Opposite Eye 7, Ansari Road, New Delhi. _c: TB752 _d: 21/06/2025
082			_a301.095 MID
100			_aMiddleton, Townsend.
245			_a Demands of recognition _b: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling. _c/ Townsend Middleton.
260			_aStanford _b: Stanford University Press _c, 2016.
300			_axvi, 278p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1991
520			_aSince 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. 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. 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			_aAnthropology
650			_aEthnopolitics
650			_adarjeeling
700			_aMiddleton Townsend
942			_cBOOK
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