Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland

by Alf Gunvald Nilsen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108496539
• ISBN13: 9781108496537
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 9.3"