Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland. Constructing Democracy

This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal. Grounded in historical and ethnographic research, it critically examines the relationship between culture and politics in a geographical space that is home to a diverse range of ethnic identities, showing how new modes of political representation, cultural activism, and everyday politics have emerged from the region.

本书深入剖析了现代南亚边缘地区民族政治的兴起、成功及其扩散，以尼泊尔民族在锡金、达拉吉里和东尼泊尔的边境地区的居住情况为案例研究。基于历史与民族志研究，该书批判性地审视了文化与政治在众多民族身份汇聚的地理空间中的关系，展现了新型政治代表模式、文化行动主义和日常政治如何从该地区涌现。