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| List of Maps and Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Thakali Again for the Very First Time | |
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| Meeting at the Crossroads | |
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| Searching for Culture in the Past | |
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| Imagining Thakali | |
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| Borderlands | |
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| Tourists in Their Own Land | |
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| Reclaiming Culture | |
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| Agency/Action/Practice | |
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| Fluid Boundaries | |
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| Drawing Lines: On Constructing and Contesting Boundaries | |
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| The Terms of Boundary Disputes | |
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| Thak Khola | |
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| The Term Thakali | |
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| Contesting Boundaries | |
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| Membership and Status, Groups and Categories | |
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| Among the Thaksatsae Thakali: Ties That Bind, Lines That Divide | |
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| Cutting Across Descent | |
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| Khuwale and Thak Khole | |
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| Summary: Criss-Crossing Boundaries | |
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| Forging Histories | |
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| Historical Narrative(s) | |
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| Thakali Narratives of the Past | |
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| Scholarship and the Reconstruction of the Past | |
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| The Formation of the Gurkhali State | |
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| The Effects of Nation Building | |
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| Post-Salt Monopoly Adaptations | |
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| Enter the Anthropologists, Surmising | |
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| Separation and Integration: Community and Contestation | |
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| Moving On | |
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| Samaj | |
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| Integration and Solidarity/Competition and Cooperation | |
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| Dhikur: Rotating Credit | |
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| Politics | |
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| Ritual Landscapes | |
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| Eclectic Ritual Pluralism | |
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| Ancestor Rituals: "We Don't Have Any Gods" | |
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| Mortuary Rites | |
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| Marriages: Khimi Tapne | |
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| Torongla | |
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| Subclan Rites: Khimi Ramden | |
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| Subclan Rites: Jho Khane | |
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| Lha Phewa and Thakali Clans | |
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| Migration and Descent Group Rituals | |
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| Codifying Culture | |
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| Codification and Contestation | |
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| Forming a National Samaj | |
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| Institutionalizing Contestation | |
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| A New Social Order | |
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| Codified Culture | |
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| Initial Responses to the Formation of the Thakali Sewa Samiti | |
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| The Integration of the Khuwale | |
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| Nationally Drawn Boundaries Locally Imposed | |
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| Ongoing Changes | |
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| Constructing Thakali | |
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| First Contacts, First Constructs | |
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| Revisionist Constructions | |
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| Thakali Reconstructed | |
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| Beyond Sanskritization | |
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| Narijhowa | |
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| Speaking of Thakali | |
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| On Boundaries | |
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| On Boundary Making | |
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| Beyond Sanskritization | |
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| Old Artificers in a New Smithy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Index | |