studies of Dalit and Adivasi communities in contemporary India. The evocative title We Were Adivasis hints at a subaltern past that the Dhankas wish to shed and an aspirational future in which the promise of postcolonial citizenship will bear fruit. Between the past and the future lies the precarious present, marked by gender and intergenerational tensions within a community trapped in the social idioms of a reactionary modernism in north India today.

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当代印度达利特和阿迪瓦西社区的研究。令人回味的标题 We We Were Adivasis 暗示了 Dhankas 希望摆脱的底层过去，以及后殖民公民身份的承诺将结出硕果的理想未来。在过去和未来之间是不稳定的现在，其特点是当今印度北部一个被困在反动现代主义社会习语中的社区内的性别和代际紧张局势。