Resistance As Negotiation

Uday Chandra is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University, Qatar.

• Maps, Tables, and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Ancien Régime, or When Margins Were Not Margins2. Colonial Paternalism and the Making of the Modern Tribal Subject3. Tribal Resistance and Rebellion4. Reconstituting Tribal Margins in Colonial India5. From the Colonial to the Postcolonial6. The Postcolonial Developmental State and the Modern Tribal Subject7. Tribal Resistance and Rebellion Revisited8. Remaking the Postcolonial State from Above and BelowConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

"An illuminating and engaging longue durée account of everyday resistance and state-making in the Chotanagpur plateau of Jharkhand. This ambitious book takes on the tropes that have shaped the conventional understanding of the pasts and the present of peoples labeled as 'adivasi' or 'tribal' in India."—Sanjib Baruah, Asian University for Women "This theoretically ambitious historical ethnography neatly displaces many of the central analytic categories by which indigenous people have been seen by state officials, scholars, politicians, and development workers, portraying them instead as modern subjects who co-produce the state on its margins and who co-author its policies and projects. Expertly crisscrossing history, politics, anthropology, and sociology, this generative and controversial book will make enduring contributions to all of these disciplines. A magnificent achievement!"—Akhil Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles "[Resistance as Negotiation] makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on Adivasi societies and broader concepts of state-formation. Recommended."—A. M. Wainwright, CHOICE