Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Introduction: steering democratisation and negotiating identity in the Himalayas
Vibha Arora and N. Jayaram
PART I Shifting selves and competing identities
1 Seeking identities on the margins of democracy: Jad Bhotiyas of Uttarkashi
Subhadra Mitra Channa
2 The politics of census: fear of numbers and competing claims for representation in Naga society
Debojyoti Das
3 The making of the subaltern Lepcha and the Kalimpong stimulus
Vibha Arora
PART II Negotiating democracy
4 Monks, elections, and foreign travels: democracy and the monastic order in western Arunachal Pradesh, North-East India
Swargajyoti Gohain
5 ‘Pure democracy’ in ‘new Nepal’: conceptions, practices, and anxieties
Amanda Snellinger
PART III Territorial conflict and after
6 Demand for Kukiland and Kuki ethnic nationalism
Vibha Arora and Ngamjahao Kipgen
7 Displacement from Kashmir: gendered responses
Charu Sawhney and Nilika Mehrotra
Index