TY - BOOK ID - 78774619 TI - Adivasis and the state PY - 2018 SN - 9781108678025 1108678025 1108759017 9781108496537 1108496539 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Hegemony KW - Caste KW - Political culture KW - Social movements KW - Culture KW - Political science KW - Brahmanism KW - Ethnology KW - Hinduism KW - Hegemonism KW - Sociology KW - Unipolarity (International relations) KW - Aboriginal peoples KW - Aborigines KW - Adivasis KW - Indigenous populations KW - Native peoples KW - Native races KW - Social conditions. KW - Government policy KW - Politics and government. KW - India UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78774619 AB - In Adivasis and the State, Alf Gunvald Nilsen presents a major study of how subalternity is both constituted and contested through state-society relations in the Bhil heartland of western India. The book unravels the historical processes that subordinated Bhil Adivasi communities to the everyday tyranny of the state and investigates how social movements have mobilised to reclaim citizenship. In doing so, the book also reveals how collective action from below transform the meanings of governmental categories, legal frameworks, and universalising vocabularies of democracy. At the core of the book lies a concern with understanding the dialectics of power and resistance that give form and direction to the political economy of democracy and development in contemporary India. Towards this end, Adivasis and the State contributes a sustained and nuanced Gramscian analysis of hegemony in order to interrogate the possibilities and limits of subaltern political engagement with state structures. ER -