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Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland : Constructing Democracy / Mona Chettri.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian Borderlands ; 3Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (184 p.) : 6 color plates, 4 halftones, 6 line drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789089648860
  • 9789048527502
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.9
LOC classification:
  • DS495.5 .C465 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Asian Borderlands -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Glossary of Local Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Locating the 'Nepali' in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland -- 2. The Ethnic Worldview: Framing Existential Grievances -- 3. Ethnic Identity as Political Identity -- 4. Manifestations of Ethnic Politics -- 5. Constructing Democracy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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. Grounded in historical and ethnographic research, it critically examines the relationship between culture and politics in a geographical space that is home to a diverse range of ethnic identities, showing how new modes of political representation, cultural activism, and everyday politics have emerged from the region.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789048527502

Frontmatter -- Asian Borderlands -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Glossary of Local Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Locating the 'Nepali' in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland -- 2. The Ethnic Worldview: Framing Existential Grievances -- 3. Ethnic Identity as Political Identity -- 4. Manifestations of Ethnic Politics -- 5. Constructing Democracy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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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. Grounded in historical and ethnographic research, it critically examines the relationship between culture and politics in a geographical space that is home to a diverse range of ethnic identities, showing how new modes of political representation, cultural activism, and everyday politics have emerged from the region.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)