Ethnic life-worlds in north-east India : an analysis
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Ethnic life-worlds in north-east India : an analysis
(Sage studies on India's north east)
SAGE Publications, 2008
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-302) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Ethnic Life-worlds in North-East India: An Analysis draws upon the phenomenological notion of the life-world to understand the culturally-embedded construction of communities, for whom the lived experience of cultural politics constitutes their identity. It analyses the cultural and political determinants of ethnic- and identity-oriented struggles in India's North-East, as well as the cultural politics of ethnic mobilizations in the region.
Such mobilizations are an attempt to construct a self-identity distinct from that constructed by the state-both colonial and post-colonial India-which becomes a source of concern for the latter with regard to its achieving legitimacy and development in the region. While both the state and insurgent groups carve out their distinct ideological and political agenda on to the life-world of the North-East, it is at the point of diversion that the struggle for establishing such agenda falls into the trappings of constitutional determinism.
This book analyses the articulation of ethnic politics in North-East India that takes into account moves for integration as well as apparent differences. In doing so, it critically examines two major insurgent outfits of the region-NSCN and ULFA. It also discusses struggles launched by the Naga and Assamese people and develops a neologism of nations-from-below, arguing that one needs to take into account the concrete totality of the people's lived experiences. It bases this analysis on a critical discussion of the colonial construction of tribal identity and its post-colonial critique.
Thought-provoking and analytical, this book opens a new window to the study of India's North-East, which will intrigue students and scholars across various disciplines of development studies, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, political science and ethnic studies, and will be of interest to policy-makers, NGOs and global humanitarian communities.
Table of Contents
Reconceptualizing an Ethnic Life-World
Preface
Reconceptualizing an Ethnic Life-World
Return of the Native
The Native and the Nation: Jawaharlal Nehru-Verrier Elwin's Philosophical Anthropology
Insurgency as Counter-Hegemonic Struggle in North-East India
Shades of 'Colonialism': Contextualizing United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)
Nations-From-Below: An Interpretation of Life and Politics
Rethinking India's North-East: Within and Beyond Life-Worlds
References
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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