Ethnographic study and cultural production in Sikkim

Vandenhelsken, Mélanie

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“…But the next government, elected in 1994, implemented the recommendations, and gave its support for the recognition of the then OBC as Scheduled Tribes. 92 All ethnic groups included under the label 'Nepali' then started to seek their recognition as tribal. 93 Limbu and Tamang were recognised as Scheduled Tribe in 2003.…”

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“…30 In Sikkim, as the Scheduled Tribe 'status' provides preferential access to political rights and economic entitlements, in addition to entailing recognition as indigenous, most communities claim state recognition as a Scheduled Tribe. 31 Consequently, the local state can bargain its support for tribal recognition against votes. 32 These outcomes of the reservation policy finally show that, for the state, these ethnological classifications as well as the regime of recognition that give them (social) life are a means of governmentality that shapes the relationship between these groups and the state as much as people's selfidentifications, whereas the capacity of tribal and indigenous recognition to provide emancipation appears limited.…”

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Ancestrality, Migration, Rights and Exclusion: Citizenship in the Indian State of Sikkim

Vandenhelsken

2020

Asian Ethnicity

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This is the introduction to a special issue of Asian Ethnicity that includes six papers on the issue of citizenship in the Indian state of Sikkim, from the perspectives of anthropology, political science, sociology and history. These contributions explore the entanglement of migration and ethnicity that defines political membership and exclusion in Sikkim, as it does in other parts of India. They give a central place to the consequences of the combination of the 1961 Sikkim Subject regulation (that remained valid after Sikkim became a part of India in 1975) and 'group-differentiated citizenship' in a context where Sikkim's population-formed through people's mobility within a region that has long been a crossroads between Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and Indiawas brought into the frame of a territorial concept of the nation. These papers also explore the means used by people in Sikkim to contest their categorisation by the state.

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