Chandra, Uday

Resistance as negotiation: making states and tribes in the margins of modern India - Ranikhet Cannt Permanent black and ashoka university 2024 - xv, 320p. Includes notes, reference and index

“Tribes” appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts of resistance and rebellion by groups designated as “tribal” have fascinated as well as perplexed administrators and scholars in South Asia and beyond. Tribal resistance and rebellion are held to be tragic yet heroic political acts by “subaltern” groups confronting omnipotent states. By contrast, this book draws on fifteen years of archival and ethnographic research to argue that statemaking is intertwined inextricably with the politics of tribal resistance in the margins of modern India.

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Asian Studies
Anthropology
Comparative Politics