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9780822392934

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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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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

02 août 2010

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822392934

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

in the shadows of the state

alpa shah

IntheShadowsoftheState

indigenous politics, environmentalism,

and insurgency in jharkhand, india

DukeUniversityPress

DurhamandLondon2010

∫2010 Duke University Press

Typeset in Carter and Cone Galliard with

Quadraat Sans display type by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data and republication

acknowledgments appear on the last printed pages of this book.

with a drop ofh a d i a , to ba and bapuji,

mygrandmotherandmylategrandfather,

otherwiseknownasMotibenandSomchandbhai

PunamchandRajaKhetaLakhaRajparNayaniShah

Contents

list of illustrationsix acknowledgmentsxi prologue1 1. The Dark Side of Indigeneity 9 2. Not Just Ghosts: Democracy as Sacral Polity 36 3. Shadowy Practices: Development as Corruption

4. Dangerous Silhouettes: Elephants, Sacriﬁce, and Alcohol 99

5. Night Escape: Eco-incarceration, Purity, and Sex

6. The Terror Within: Revolution against the State?

epilogue:Arcadian Spaces beyond the Shadows of the State 184

glossary of terms notes193 bibliography237 index265

191

130 162

ListofIllustrations

Map of India xiv 1. The house I lived in, Tapu village, Jharkhand 2 2. Tapu 2 3. The market in Bero 4 4. Drinking rice beer 4 5. Drinking and smoking at the Khalihani feast 38 6. Thepahansacriﬁcing a chicken to the spirits 38 7. Cooking for the Khalihani feast 39 8. Blindfolding the man with the light shadow for selection of the pahanandpaenbharra42 9. The man possessed by a spirit entering the house of the new pahan42 10. Building Dharmesh’s road 68 11. Dharmesh’s road a year later 70 12. The Bero Block Development O≈ce 73 13. Lighting the ﬁres that keep elephants away 100 14. A road sign in Ranchi City for attracting tourists to Jharkhand 104 15. The sacred grove in Tapu 110 16. One side of Wahib’s house, destroyed by elephants 112 17. Elephant damage to crops in Tapu 112 18. Rituals of the Fagua festival in Tapu 118 19. Preparing rice beer for the Fagua festival in Tapu 118

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