Debating race in contemporary India

By:

McDuie-Ra, Duncan

Material type: Text

9781137538970

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DDC classification:

305.80 MCD-D

Contents:

1.Introduction: Let's Stop Pretending

2. Bangalore: An Inconvenient Truth: Hate Crime and the Exodus

3. Enough Racism, Enough: Vocal Politics, Gendered Silences

4. Calling NE People Chinki Will Land You in Jail: Fixing Racism

5. Mahatma Gandhi's Statue Beheaded in Ukhrul: Beyond the Good Indian Citizen in Race Debates

Summary: A great deal of energy goes into strenuously denying that racism exists in India, or upon recognizing that it may exist, stressing that it is not as bad as in other countries. Yet in recent years there has been a shift towards recognizing and attempting to 'fix' racism as part of larger agenda of integration of India's rebellious frontier populations into the national fold. The experiences of indigenous and tribal communities from Northeast India have brought race debates to national attention. Three murders and a mass 'exodus' of Northeast migrants back to the borderland from Indian cities are analyzed to track the shifts in race debates from denial to acknowledgement to high level government action. Duncan McDuie-Ra argues that, despite these shifts, racism experienced by Northeast communities is framed as a problem of metropolitan India not of everyday life in the borderland itself, subsuming the contentious politics of state-making and rebellion.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Introduction: Let's Stop Pretending

2. Bangalore: An Inconvenient Truth: Hate Crime and the Exodus

3. Enough Racism, Enough: Vocal Politics, Gendered Silences

4. Calling NE People Chinki Will Land You in Jail: Fixing Racism

5. Mahatma Gandhi's Statue Beheaded in Ukhrul: Beyond the Good Indian Citizen in Race Debates

A great deal of energy goes into strenuously denying that racism exists in India, or upon recognizing that it may exist, stressing that it is not as bad as in other countries. Yet in recent years there has been a shift towards recognizing and attempting to 'fix' racism as part of larger agenda of integration of India's rebellious frontier populations into the national fold. The experiences of indigenous and tribal communities from Northeast India have brought race debates to national attention. Three murders and a mass 'exodus' of Northeast migrants back to the borderland from Indian cities are analyzed to track the shifts in race debates from denial to acknowledgement to high level government action. Duncan McDuie-Ra argues that, despite these shifts, racism experienced by Northeast communities is framed as a problem of metropolitan India not of everyday life in the borderland itself, subsuming the contentious politics of state-making and rebellion.

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