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Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to
policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use
ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are
harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities,
achieve greater prosperity, and secure political rights. In this
groundbreaking study, Townsend Middleton tracks these newfound
"lives" of anthropology. Offering simultaneous ethnographies of the
people of Darjeeling's quest for "tribal" status and the government
anthropologists handling their claims, Middleton exposes how
minorities are-and are not-recognized for affirmative action and
autonomy. We encounter communities putting on elaborate spectacles
of sacrifice, exorcism, bows and arrows, and blood drinking to
prove their "primitiveness" and "backwardness." Conversely, we see
government anthropologists struggle for the ethnographic truth as
communities increasingly turn academic paradigms back upon the
state. The Demands of Recognition offers a compelling look at the
escalating politics of tribal recognition in India. At once
ethnographic and historical, it chronicles how multicultural
governance has motivated the people of Darjeeling to ethnologically
redefine themselves-from Gorkha to tribal and back. But as these
communities now know, not all forms of difference are legible in
the eyes of the state. The Gorkhas' search for recognition has only
amplified these communities' anxieties about who they are-and who
they must be-if they are to attain the rights, autonomy, and
belonging they desire.
Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to
policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use
ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are
harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities,
achieve greater prosperity, and secure political rights. In this
groundbreaking study, Townsend Middleton tracks these newfound
"lives" of anthropology. Offering simultaneous ethnographies of the
people of Darjeeling's quest for "tribal" status and the government
anthropologists handling their claims, Middleton exposes how
minorities are-and are not-recognized for affirmative action and
autonomy. We encounter communities putting on elaborate spectacles
of sacrifice, exorcism, bows and arrows, and blood drinking to
prove their "primitiveness" and "backwardness." Conversely, we see
government anthropologists struggle for the ethnographic truth as
communities increasingly turn academic paradigms back upon the
state. The Demands of Recognition offers a compelling look at the
escalating politics of tribal recognition in India. At once
ethnographic and historical, it chronicles how multicultural
governance has motivated the people of Darjeeling to ethnologically
redefine themselves-from Gorkha to tribal and back. But as these
communities now know, not all forms of difference are legible in
the eyes of the state. The Gorkhas' search for recognition has only
amplified these communities' anxieties about who they are-and who
they must be-if they are to attain the rights, autonomy, and
belonging they desire.
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