ABSTRACT
This chapter explores changing forms of racialization experienced by the Adivasis and Dalits. It investigates how these processes mirror the anxieties of the Hindu upper caste in the globalization era and how the responses by the marginalized groups are fraught with dilemma between asserting their differences and assimilating into the mainstream. Through a case study of the disputes over bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, Tanabe suggests that the politics of development has transitioned from “exclusion” to “subjectification,” where racism continues to function at the invisible, visceral level, in conjunction with the overt, rational discourse of development discourse.
