Premium
The Political Art of Patience: Adivasi Resistance in India
Author(s) -
Johnston Caleb
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00967.x
Subject(s) - indigenous , citizenship , democracy , politics , state (computer science) , patience , government (linguistics) , inclusion (mineral) , political science , action (physics) , political economy , gender studies , sociology , public administration , law , theology , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science , biology
This article documents the emergence of the Denotified Rights Action Group (DNG‐RAG), a national social movement orchestrated to assert the citizenship rights of adivasi (indigenous) populations in India. It assesses the movement's efforts to engage the central Indian government in meaningful dialogue to accommodate the inclusion of marginalized adivasis in the democratic politics of the nation. In doing so, the DNT‐RAG reasserts the primacy of the Indian state as the principal engine driving the project of nation building, and as such, the site that activists target to further an agenda of equitable development and democratic rights for those known as India's Denotified Tribes.