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Vernacular politics in Northeast India : democracy, ethnicity, and indigeneity

Title
Vernacular politics in Northeast India : democracy, ethnicity, and indigeneity / edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters.
Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022.

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Additional Authors
Wouters, Jelle J. P.
Description
x, 413 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • Democracy > India, Northeastern
  • Ethnicity > India, Northeastern
  • Democracy
  • Ethnicity
  • Politics and government
  • India, Northeastern > Politics and government
  • Northeastern India
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-399) and index.
Contents
Preface and Introduction / Jelle P Wouters -- What is a Raij? Translating Counter-Sovereignties in Twenty-First-Century Assam / Sean Dowdy -- A Non-Eurocentric Genealogy of Indian Democracy : Tripura in History of Political Thought / Milinda Banerjee -- Monks and Minority Politics in Arunachal Pradesh / Swargajyoti Gohain -- Ethnic mobilization and the election process : A study of the contours of identity making in Mizoram / Joy Pachuau -- Ethnocracy in Deeply Divided Societies : The Dynamics of Ethnopolitics in Manipur / Thongkholal Haokip -- Like The Fish Follow The Python : Biomoral Politics Amongst Meitei Revivalists / Edward Moon-Little -- Prophecy as Politics : Of Chosenness, Covenant and Cosmos in the Naga Struggle for Sovereignty / Leishipem Khamrang and Jelle J.P Wouters -- Konyak cosmopolitics : feasting kings, fasting prophets and the state / Michael Heneise -- 'A register and a bill' The contentious making of citizenship in Assam / Kaustubh Deka -- The body of the land : Women, ethnicity and alter-politics / Maranatha G.T Wahlang and Bengt G. Karlsson -- Women as/and Outsiders : Subjectification, Exclusion and Depoliticisation in North East India / Sajal Nag -- Designing Indigeneity : Eco-Tourism, State Benevolence, and 'Entitled' Youth in Dzongu, Sikkim / Mabel Gergan -- Northeast India as a Complex and Compressed Modernity / David N. Gellner.
Call Number
JFD 23-1496
ISBN
  • 0192863460
  • 9780192863461
LCCN
2022931395
OCLC
1318992697
Title
Vernacular politics in Northeast India : democracy, ethnicity, and indigeneity / edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters.
Publisher
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-399) and index.
Added Author
Wouters, Jelle J. P., editor.
Research Call Number
JFD 23-1496
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