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Migrations, Identities and Democratic Practices in India (Hardcover)
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Migrations, Identities and Democratic Practices in India (Hardcover)
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This book explores contesting identities, international politics,
migration and democratic practices in the context of globalizing
India. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, it looks at one
of the oldest migratory routes across a volatile region in eastern
India which is fraught with violent claims of separate statehood.
The book offers an account of how the 'North Bengal' region has
acted as a gateway to migrant populations over time and points to
why it must be understood as a shifting and liminal space through a
study of Bodoland, Gorkhaland, Kamatapuri, Siliguri and the Greater
Cooch Behar movements. It shows the region's politics of identity
or quest for homeland not as a means of compensating for the lack
or absence of identity, but as an everyday practice of living that
very absence, across borders and boundaries, without arriving at
any definitive and stable identity, along with impacts and
manifestations in democratic political processes. A major
intervention in modern political theory - shedding new light on
concepts such as home and homeland, space and self, sovereignty,
nation-state, freedom and democracy - this book will be of interest
to scholars and researchers of political science, modern South
Asian history, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and
diaspora studies.
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