Everyday State and Development in Northeast India

Biswaranjan Tripura (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India)

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Routledge
18 February 2025

Regional studies; Development studies; Ethnic studies; Sociology: customs & traditions; Politics & government

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

This book examines the everyday state from the perspective of the lived experiences of peripheralized Indigenous tribal peoples in contemporary Tripura, Northeast India.

Building on discussions in the anthropology of the state and development literature and based on rich ethnography data, this book examines the concrete rural Indigenous people’s experiences of the state and how they negotiate those interactions to their advantage and for their own empowerment. The author addresses the following questions: How do members of peripheralized Indigenous tribal communities imagine, perceive, and experience the state in their everyday practices? What are the various strategies and approaches that they use to undermine and negotiate the complex power relations to their advantage in their relations with the state? This book argues that the state is experienced as both hope and despair and broken promises by the peripheralized Indigenous community.

A fresh perspective of studying Indigenous/tribal in Northeast India, this book will be useful for researchers and scholars of the anthropology of state and development, development studies, social work, sociology, political science, tribal/ Adivasi/Indigenous studies, Northeast India studies, and South Asian studies.

By: Biswaranjan Tripura (Tata Institute of Social Sciences India)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 512g
ISBN: 9781032818160
ISBN 10: 1032818166
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 18 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Everyday State and Development; 2. Decolonizing Tribal Studies in India; 3. Dialogical-Historical Approach to Indigenous Peoples Questions in Tripura; 4. Envisaging Tribal Governance: The Case of Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council; 5. The Everyday State in the Para; 6. Politics of Improvement; 7. “We Have Become Microscopic in Our Ancestral Land”: The Negotiation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019; 8. Conclusion: The Many Faces of Everyday State and Development; Index

Biswaranjan Tripura teaches in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He received his PhD in International Development Studies from the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. His research interests include anthropology of everyday state, Indigenous education, decolonial studies, with a focus on Northeast India and Tiprasa peoples. He is also the author of Educational Experiences of Indigenous Peoples (2014).