Mona Chettri

Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland

Constructing Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal.

Produktdetails

• Asian Borderlands
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9789089648860
• ISBN-10: 9089648860
• Artikelnr.: 44677838

Autorenporträt

Mona Chettri is a Next Generation Network Scholar at the Australia-India Institute, University of Western Australia. She is the author of Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing Democracy (Amsterdam University Press, 2017). Her current research focuses on infrastructure, urbanisation, and gender in the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalaya. Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ethnic Identity and Politics in the Eastern Himalaya Why
Study the Eastern Himalayan Borderland? Studying the Eastern Himalayan
Borderland Facilitating Ethnic Politics 1. Locating the Nepali in the
Eastern Himalaya Becoming Nepali: Colonial History and Ethnic Group
Formation Going to Muglan: Emigration from the Kingdom of Gorkha to India
Language and Ethnic Group Formation Homogenization of the Nepalis and its
Impact on Identity Formation 1.1 Identifying the Nepalis of the Eastern
Himalaya Gorkhaland: Homeland for the Indian-Nepalis Deconstructing the
Nepalis in Sikkim Re-Claiming Limbuwan 2. The Ethnic Worldview: Framing
Existential Grievances Limbus of Eastern Nepal and the Politics of 'Jati
and Nose' Discriminating Against the Sons of the Soil: The Gorkhas of
Darjeeling Fostering Culture of Dependency in Sikkim 3. Ethnic Identity as
Political Identity The Political Resilience of the Brave Gorkha Neither
Mongol nor Kirat: Asserting the Limbu Identity Claiming Exclusive
Identities in Sikkim 4. Manifestations of Ethnic Politics The Dress Code:
Looking Like a Gorkha Becoming a Tribe in Sikkim Limbus as the Embodiment
of the Indigenous Discourse 5. Constructing Democracy Emergence of a New
Patronage Structure The New Elites Expressing Agency Through Ethnic
Politics Regional Interpretation of Democracy 6. Being Nepali Across
Borders Of Ethnic Politics and democratic Cultures Ethnic Politics as
People's Politics.