The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi

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. 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.

Author: Daniel J. Rycroft
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/11/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780415748681

About the Author

Daniel J. Rycroft is Lecturer in South Asian Arts and Cultures at the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, UK.

Sangeeta Dasgupta is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.