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ISBN 10: 1952636233 

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Author: Sumit Guha 

Every literate person today will encounter the word “tribe” in many settings. What does this word mean? When and how did its use begin? Is it a good label for any contemporary social organization? Is it relevant for policymakers to think with? Academics have often critiqued its use, but that has not suppressed its ubiquity. Why? This book offers answers to all the above. In order to keep it manageable, these questions are investigated only for the span of Asia that runs from Siberia to Sri Lanka and Suez to the Sea of Japan, and over the past 2,500 years. It thus starts at the beginning of the Iron Age and looks at both unwritten cultures dominant in the past and the hypertextual world of today. Its four chapters successively analyze the Asian uses of tribe-like categories, European deployment of the term in the age of imperialism, the environments where it flourishes and those it makes and the diversity of tribes across Asia today. The book will be of great interest to historians, journalists, policymakers, and to anyone studying the history of Asia.

Tribe and State in Asia Through Twenty Five Centuries 1st Table of contents: 

1: Asian Ideas of “Tribe”
Perspectives: From Within, from Above, and from Below
Inner East Asia: The Emergence of a Tribe-State Frontier
Inner Asia: Chinggisid Ulus as Future Tribe
“Tribe” in Iran and Iraq
“Tribe” in Indic Social Thought
The Mountain Massif and Archipelago of Southeast Asia
The Coming of European Categories
2: How the “Tribe” Came to Asia
Early English Use
The French Colonial Empire
Racial Anthropology and the “Tribe”
Contradictory Psychologies of Tribalism
The Post-Imperial Legacy in South and East Asia
3: The Political Ecology of Tribal Life
The Concept of Political Ecology
The Political Ecology of Asia
Pastoral Nomadism and “Tribalism”
The Inner Asian Frontiers of China
The Habitat of the Turkic Peoples of Inner Asia
Tribe and Habitat in the Later Ottoman and Iranian World
Community Organization and Habitat in South Asia
A Tribe of the Thorn Forest: Bhils of Central India
Southeast Asian Examples of Political Ecology
The Political Ecology of Tribal Life: Conclusion
4: Tribes, Yesterday and Today
Introduction: The Purpose of This Chapter
Northern Asia: ‘Manufactory of the Peoples’
Turkic Peoples
The Turks of Western Eurasia
The Making of Mongols and the Reshaping of Eurasia
From Turkman Messianic Entourage to Iranian Empire and Back
New Tribes from the Ruins of the Chinggisid World Conquest
Tribal Kingdoms and Khanates in Russian-Dominated Inner Asia
A Mongol Fragment—the Hazara of Afghanistan
Making the Manchus into a Ruling “Tribe”
The Southwest in Ming-Qing Times
Tribes and Ethnic Minorities in the People’s Republic
French Colonial Indochina
British Rule in Burma
Caste Systems and Tribal Conquests
The Shaping of a Rohilla Tribe and Territory in North India
Late Empire and Early Republic in India
Banjaras versus Gonds: Militarized Merchants Become a Dominant Aboriginal Tribe
Struggling to Be a Tribe: A Political Agitation in Contemporary India

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