- 230 pages
- English
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About this book
This book explores the critical linkages between indigeneity, marginality, and the state in Bangladesh. Indigeneity is progressively gaining currency in politics and thereby becoming an active force in the larger context of national activism with transnational patronage and international support. Drawing on comprehensive and solid ethnographic accounts, the book offers a broader understanding of the process of marginalisation and the emergence of new leadership among the Khumi, an indigenous group of Bangladesh. It illuminates how the Khumi have realised their position on the margin of the state within the socio-economic, political, and ethnic history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. It also looks at how kin-based social organisations and non-kin-based social relations become bases of power and authority as well as cooperation and reciprocity in Khumi society.
Lucid and topical, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of indigenous studies, anthropology, ethnic studies, sociology, political sciences, international relations, border studies, and South Asian studies, especially those concerned with Bangladesh.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Orthography
- List of Glossary and Acronyms
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: A Triplicate Relation: Power, Marginality, and Leadership in Khumi Life
- 2 Colonial Fantasy in Postcolonial Trajectories: Emergence of Khumi and Their Indigenous Mobility Across History
- 3 The Local Installation of Global Indigeneity: Rights, Entitlements, and Activism in Khumi Life
- 4 In Search of Self: Khumi Identity, Indigeneity, and Cultural Politics in Bangladesh
- 5 A Life Better Than Before: Khumi Theory of “Development” by Reshaping Social and Material Life
- 6 Local Dynamics of Politics: Social Relations, Power, and Reciprocity in the Khumi World
- 7 Moving From the Margin: The Khumi Art of Resistance and Resilience
- 8 Conclusion: Indigeneity, Marginality, and the State
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index