The Problem Without a Name

Comments on Cultural Difference (Racism) in India

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11622663
AutoresPapori Bora (Jawaharlal Nehru University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume42
Fascículo5
Páginas845-860
Data de publicação2019-09-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSouth Asia Journal of South Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0085-6401 • E-ISSN: 1479-0270
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00856401.2019.1644476
OpenAlexW2976723964
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22

This paper is about race and race relations in India with a focus on the experiences of violence and discrimination that people from India’s Northeast face in mainland India. This has become a ‘problem without a name’, generally articulated as a problem of cultural difference. The paper argues that the emphasis on cultural difference elides the issue of racism faced by India’s north-eastern subjects, whereby culture is a mere substitute for race. Institutional approaches to racism tend to rely on a biological understanding of race. The paper demonstrates the racial formation of the category ‘north-eastern’ through the processes of colonialism, nationalism and counter-insurgency. This approach shows the ways in which racism, classism and sexism work together in constituting the racialised, gendered and classed north-eastern subject

Colonialism · Face (sociological concept · Mainland · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term · Race (biology · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Gender Studies · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora