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The modernity of primitive India: Adivasi ethnicity in Jharkhand and the formation of a national modern.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The modernity of primitive India: Adivasi ethnicity in Jharkhand and the formation of a national modern./
Author:	Ghosh, Kaushik.
Description:	360 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4428.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-12A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3200300
ISBN:	9780542449161

The modernity of primitive India: Adivasi ethnicity in Jharkhand and the formation of a national modern.
Ghosh, Kaushik.

The modernity of primitive India: Adivasi ethnicity in Jharkhand and the formation of a national modern. - 360 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4428.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2006.

This dissertation is an exploration of the politics of primitiveness that has congealed around the figure of the "tribal" or adivasi in Indian modernity. It argues that the discourse of the adivasi as a primitive, which, while both constituted by and constituting of Indian national modernity, acts as an aporia in the normative representations of that "national modern." Methodologically, this work combines extensive fieldwork on the adivasi movement against the Koel-Karo hydroelectric project in Jharkhand, India, with archival work on colonial and national governance of Jharkhand. This allows us to show how the signifying divide of a "primitive adivasi margin" and a "modern national mainstream" emerges as an effect of particular forms of an "exclusive governmentality" initiated by the early colonial State in relation to tribal populations. Such practices of governmentality have been selectively absorbed into the logic of the nation-state. Exclusive governmentality, by recognizing the adivasi as a primitive alterity located outside a Hindu-Aryan nation have produced both the more obvious forms of exploitation of adivasi populations in the name of development or national progress and a larger aesthetic of violence, killings and eroticism that articulates the "national modern" in relation to an "adivasi primitive." Simultaneously, however, this adivasi/mainstream dichotomy becomes available for heterogeneous readings by situated adivasi actors leading to both the reproduction and an unraveling of the hegemonic imaginations of the State and our conventional notions of resistance to it. On the one hand we have the emergence of an adivasi politics which latches on to the evolutionary logic and magical power of the State in the name of demanding and precipitating an adivasi homeland of Jharkhand. On the other hand, the processes set off by exclusive governmentality, get reassembled into a different politics of place and locality in adivasi movements like Koel-Karo which forces us to revisit and rethink our conventions of understanding cultural identity and the politics of difference. In this heterogeneous postcoloniality of the figure of the adivasi we thus encounter a deconstructive case for our efforts at narrating alternate modernities and the forging of new idioms of justice and politics.

ISBN: 9780542449161Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The modernity of primitive India: Adivasi ethnicity in Jharkhand and the formation of a national modern.
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