Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand

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Dr Ipshita Basu (Reader in Global Development, Reader in Global Development, Centre for Study of Democracy, University of Westminster)

Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand

Dr Ipshita Basu (Reader in Global Development, Reader in Global Development, Centre for Study of Democracy, University of Westminster)

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Oxford University Press
13 February 2024

Regional government; Political activism

Created in 2000 following a long-standing regional movement, Jharkhand-the land of forests-represents an important experiment in regional autonomy and self-determination for indigenous communities in a postcolonial democracy. Over two decades, Jharkhand has experienced a volatile political environment as competing political groups have mobilised indigenous subaltern communities for different ends. In Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand, Ipshita Basu contributes to scholarship on critical social justice and indigeneity by highlighting 'relations of justification' as a central feature of group-based claims-making for social groups identifying with indigeneity in diverse ways. Specifically, the book focuses on reclaiming political recognition for Adivasis within the contemporary dynamics of majoritarian populism and the market economy. Uniting perspectives from philosophy (social justice), politics (democracy and public reasoning), and culture studies (identity), and based on ethnographic and archival research, the author indicates that when 'relations' are at the epicentre of claims-making, expressive attachments determine political activism over the instrumental choices that groups are compelled to make in the context of large power differentials. This book is a timely account of indigenous politics and is an attempt to foreground the complex 'political nature' of social justice claims-making in a democracy such as India.

By: Dr Ipshita Basu (Reader in Global Development Reader in Global Development Centre for Study of Democracy University of Westminster)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 432g
ISBN: 9780198884675
ISBN 10: 0198884672
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 13 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ipshita Basu is a political sociologist specialising in Development Justice for indigenous communities and marginalised groups in contexts of change and conflict. Basu holds a PhD in International Development from the University of Bath and M.A. from the University of Warwick. Currently she is Reader in Global Development at the University of Westminster's Centre for Study of Democracy, and prior to this, she was based at the University of Surrey and the BRAC University in Bangladesh.

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Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand

Dr Ipshita Basu (Reader in Global Development, Reader in Global Development, Centre for Study of Democracy, University of Westminster)

$178.95

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