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The Nature of Endangerment in India Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination & Conservation, 1818-2020

By: Ezra Rashkow(Author)
394 pages
The Nature of Endangerment in India
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Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more conservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of Adivasi culture have often reached a fever pitch, especially amongst urban middle-class activists and global civil society groups. But are India's 'tribes' really endangered? Do they face extinction? And is this threat somehow comparable to the threat of extinction facing tigers and other wildlife? Combining years of fieldwork and archival research with rigorous theoretical interrogations, this book examines fears of interlinking biological and cultural (or biocultural) diversity loss – particularly in regard to Bhil and Gond communities facing conservation and development-induced displacement in western and central India. It also problematizes the frequent usage of dehumanizing animal analogies that carelessly equate the fates of endangered species and societies. In doing so, it offers a global intellectual history of the concepts of endangerment and extinction, demonstrating that anxieties over tribal extinction existed long before there was even scientific awareness of the extinction of non-human species. The book is not a history or an ethnography of the tribes of India, but rather a history of discourses – including Adivasis' own – about what is often perceived to be the fundamental question for nearly all indigenous peoples in the modern world: the question of survival.

Contents

Preface - Beyond 'Tigers versus Tribes'
Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Nature of Endangerment
1. Human Endangerment Discourse: A Global Genealogy
2. Endangered Species & Societies in India
3. From Extermination to Conservation of India's 'Wild Life'
4. The Tribal 'Problem'
5. Narmada Bachao, Manav Bachao
6. A National Park for the Gond and Baiga

Bibliography
Index

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Biography

The author is Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University. He is the author of numerous articles on the history of hunting, conservation, protected areas, and endangered species in South Asia. He has lived for many years in rural central India.

By: Ezra Rashkow(Author)
394 pages
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