We were Adivasis: aspiration in an Indian scheduled tribe

By:

Moodie, Megan

Series: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: Primus Books, 2015. Delhi:Description: xi, 217 p.: ill., maps; pb; 24 cmISBN:

9789386552488

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.48 MOO

Summary: In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes," or adivasis-historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. She shows how they must simultaneously affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the pas.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar General Stacks	General	305.48 MOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		029449

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.

In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes," or adivasis-historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. She shows how they must simultaneously affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the pas.

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