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The Interlude at the beginning of Part III functions like a prologue to the chapters that follow. It serves to describe the conditions under which the author conducted fieldwork among the Ranchis (Adivasi migrants from the Chotanagpur region). The Interlude presents a narrative summary of the events of two days in 2011. This vignette seeks to introduce firstly, the ambiguous dynamics of postcolonial statehood that shaped the author’s and his interlocutors’ perception of the ‘everyday state’. Secondly, the Interlude illustrates that the fieldworker’s ‘gaze’ of ‘the field’ may be understood as evolving out of a dialectical process between preconditioned knowledge, subjective experiences of the Other, and the interpretations of events brought forward by ‘friends’ who collaborate in the research.
Title: Interlude
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The Interlude at the beginning of Part III functions like a prologue to the chapters that follow.
It serves to describe the conditions under which the author conducted fieldwork among the Ranchis (Adivasi migrants from the Chotanagpur region).
The Interlude presents a narrative summary of the events of two days in 2011.
This vignette seeks to introduce firstly, the ambiguous dynamics of postcolonial statehood that shaped the author’s and his interlocutors’ perception of the ‘everyday state’.
Secondly, the Interlude illustrates that the fieldworker’s ‘gaze’ of ‘the field’ may be understood as evolving out of a dialectical process between preconditioned knowledge, subjective experiences of the Other, and the interpretations of events brought forward by ‘friends’ who collaborate in the research.
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