Indigenist mobilization :confronting electoral communism and precarious livelihoods in post-reform Kerala

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In Kerala, political activists with a background in Communism are now instead asserting political demands on the basis of indigenous identity. Why did a notion of indigenous belonging come to replace the discourse of class in subaltern struggles? Indigenist Mobilization answers this question through...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steur, Luisa
Format: Printed Book
Published: Hyderabad Orient blackswan 2017
Series:Dislocations ;
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples
Dalits
Agricultural laborers
Land reform
Communism
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