Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0192678264
• ISBN-13: 9780192678263
• Author: Jelle J.P. Wouters

Perhaps nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of ‘the political’ as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast India. Vernacular Politics in Northeast India offers penetrating accounts into what guides and animates Northeast India’s spirited political sphere, including the categories and values through which its peoples conceive of their ‘political’ lives. Fourteen essays by anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and geographers think their way afresh into the region’s political life and sense. Collectively they show how different communities, instead of adjusting themselves to modern democratic ideals, adjust democracy to themselves, how ethnicity has become a politically pregnant expression of local identities, and how forms and politics of indigeneity assume a life of its own as it is taken on, articulated, reworked, and fought over by peoples.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. What Is a Raij? Translating Counter-Sovereignties in Twenty-First-Century Assam
3. A Non-Eurocentric Genealogy of Indian Democracy: Tripura in History of Political Thought
4. By the Ballot: Constructing Citizens Through Elections in Assam
5. Monks and Minority Politics in Arunachal Pradesh
6. Ethnic Mobilization and the Election Process: A Study of the Contours of Identity Making in Mizoram
7. Ethnocracy in Deeply Divided Societies: The Dynamics of Ethnopolitics in Manipur
8. Like the Fish Follows the Python: Biomoral Politics Amongst Meitei Revivalists
9. Prophecy as Politics: Of Chosenness, Covenant, and Cosmos in the Naga Struggle for Sovereignty
10. Konyak Cosmopolitics: Feasting Kings, Fasting Prophets, and the State
11. ‘A Register and a Bill’: The Contentious Making of Citizenship in Assam
12. The Body of the Land: Women, Ethnicity, and Alter-Politics
13. In Search of the ‘Enemy’: Outsiders, Women, and Political Exclusion in Northeast India
14. Designing Indigeneity: Eco-Tourism, State Benevolence, and ‘Entitled’ Youth in Dzongu, Sikkim

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