In the shadows of the state : indigenous politics, environmentalism, and insurgency in Jharkhand, India

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In the shadows of the state : indigenous politics, environmentalism, and insurgency in Jharkhand, India

Alpa Shah

Duke University Press, c2010

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Bibliography: p. [237]-261

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In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of local, regional, and transnational activism for the rights of the region's culturally autonomous indigenous people, Alpa Shah argues that the activism unintentionally further marginalized the region's poorest people. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in Jharkhand, she follows the everyday lives of some of the poorest villagers as they chase away protected wild elephants, try to cut down the forests they allegedly live in harmony with, maintain a healthy skepticism about the revival of the indigenous governance system, and seek to avoid the initial spread of an armed revolution of Maoist guerrillas who claim to represent them. Juxtaposing these experiences with the accounts of the village elites and the rhetoric of the urban indigenous-rights activists, Shah reveals a class dimension to the indigenous-rights movement, one easily lost in the cultural-based identity politics that the movement produces. In the Shadows of the State brings together ethnographic and theoretical analyses to show that the local use of global discourses of indigeneity often reinforces a class system that harms the poorest people.

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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue 1 1. The Dark Side of Indigeneity 9 2. Not Just Ghosts: Democracy as Sacral Polity 36 3. Shadowy Practices: Development as Corruption 66 4. Dangerous Silhouettes: Elephants, Sacrifice, and Alcohol 99 5. Night Escape: Eco-incarceration, Purity, and Sex 130 6. The Terror Within: Revolution against the State? 162 Epilogue: Arcadian Spaces beyond the Shadows of the State 184 Glossary of Terms 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 237 Index 265

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