The Newsletter 53 Spring 2010

Markus Schleiter and Erik de Maaker present ‘Indigenous’ India – six essays focussing on a deeper understanding of the processes by which ‘tribes’ and ‘tribal identities’ are being sustained, redefined, created and denied.

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The Focus

The Focus

‘Indigenous’ India

Indigeneity as a cultural practice: 'tribe' and the state in India

'Tribes', tradition and state

'You know, we are Indians too!': Tribal displacement and violent encounters with a 'blind' state in Andhra Pradesh

The rise and fall of 'tribal' development in Orissa

Between nurture and neglect: providing welfare to the Ongees of Little Andaman Island

Taking root in Bangladesh: states, minorities, and discourses of citizenship

Indigenous identity: burden or liberation? Reflections on 'adivasi' politics in Kerala

The Study

The future of village elections in China

Iran: social revolt and prospects for change (part 1)

Beyond Copenhagen: what role for Asia?

Haitian disaster relief: Implications of Chinese and Taiwanese assistance

'Merdeka': images of hostile territory

Rediscovering the royal capital of Majapahit

Van Gulik and the Chinese lute

The Review

The rise of China: setting the alarm bells ringing?

The sound of modern Chinese poetry

The Russian Protocols of Zion in Japan

'Twice forgotten'; 'twice suppressed'

The socialist revolution in Mongolia

'Meaningless' mantras and birdsong?: discovering the Vedas

A history of Bangladesh

Ancient glass from the Silk Road

A moderniser with a firm foot in the Classical world

The Portrait

Siebold’s flower garden. Botanical paintings of the Siebold collection