Everyday State and Development in Northeast India

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-81816-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

This book examines the everyday state from the perspective of the lived experiences of peripheralized Indigenous tribal peoples in contemporary Tripura, Northeast India.

Building on discussions in the anthropology of the state and development literature and based on rich ethnography data, this book examines the concrete rural Indigenous people’s experiences of the state and how they negotiate those interactions to their advantage and for their own empowerment. The author addresses the following questions: How do members of peripheralized Indigenous tribal communities imagine, perceive, and experience the state in their everyday practices? What are the various strategies and approaches that they use to undermine and negotiate the complex power relations to their advantage in their relations with the state? This book argues that the state is experienced as both hope and despair and broken promises by the peripheralized Indigenous community.

A fresh perspective of studying Indigenous/tribal in Northeast India, this book will be useful for researchers and scholars of the anthropology of state and development, development studies, social work, sociology, political science, tribal/ Adivasi/Indigenous studies, Northeast India studies, and South Asian studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tripura, Biswaranjan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Everyday State and Development; 2. Decolonizing Tribal Studies in India; 3. Dialogical-Historical Approach to Indigenous Peoples Questions in Tripura; 4. Envisaging Tribal Governance: The Case of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council; 5. The Everyday State in the Para; 6. Politics of Improvement; 7. “We Have Become Microscopic in Our Ancestral Land”: The Negotiation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019; 8. Conclusion: The Many Faces of Everyday State and Development; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Biswaranjan Tripura teaches in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He received his PhD in International Development Studies from the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. His research interests include anthropology of everyday state, Indigenous education, decolonial studies, with a focus on Northeast India and Tiprasa peoples. He is also the author of Educational Experiences of Indigenous Peoples (2014).