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This collection of essays present an intellectual platform to map the current understanding of Indian tribes in social science writing, and to outline the key debates over tribal identities and categorization, state policies towards tribes and their ground reality, and impact of current developmental models on tribals human rights, livelihood, well-being and security, and politics.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Nandini Sundar
- Part 1: IDENTITY and POLITICS
- Section Introduction
- 1. Environment and Ethnicity in India, 12001991
- Sumit Guha
- 2. From Caste to Tribe: An Autobiographical Essay
- Tanka Subba
- 3. Khasi Women And Matriliny: Transformations in Gender Relations
- Tiplut Nongbri
- 4. Anthropology and The Indigenous Slot: Claims to and Debates About Indigenous Peoples Status in India.
- Bengt G. Karlsson
- 5. Adivasi Vs. Vanvasi: The Politics Of Conversion in Central India
- Nandini Sundar
- 6. Loving and Forgetting: Moments of Inarticulacy in Tribal India
- Piers Vitebsky
- 7. When the Lost Soil Beckoned: Life Sketch Narrated by C. K. Janu
- Usha Menon (Translator)
- 8. A Discourse on Non-Violence, in Fire on The Mountain (poem)
- K. Satchidanandan
- Part 2: POLICIES and POLITICS
- Section Introduction
- 9. Bauxite Business in Odisha
- Felix Padel and Samarendra Das
- 10. Women Against Imperialism: Peasants And Workers Movements in Madhya Pradesh
- Chittaroopa Palit
- 11. Three Songs of Struggle
- (Composed and translated by various artists)
- 12. Indefinitely under Trial: The Case of the Four Pahadiyas
- Vasudha Dhagamwar
- 13. Drought and TADA in Adilabad
- K. Balagopal
- 14. Protective Discrimination: Why Scheduled Tribes Lag Behind Scheduled Castes
- Virginius Xaxa
- 15. Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics and Reservation
- Mritunjay Mohanty
- 16. Pedagogy and Prescription
- Bikram Nanda
- 17. Indias Forest Tenure Reforms, 19922012
- Madhu Sarin
- 18. Nationalizing Space: Cosmetic Federalism and the Politics of Development in Northeast India
- Sanjib Baruah
- Part 3: WORK AND RESOURCES
- Section Introduction
- 19. The Ethnography of South Asian Foragers
- Jana Fortier
- 20. From Uchalaya
- Laxman Gaikwad
- 21. The Tiger and the Honey bee
- Savyasaachi
- 22. Tribal Livelihood and the Agrarian Crises
- Archana Prasad
- 23. The Market Wheel: Symbolic Aspects of an Indian Tribal Market
- Alfred Gell
- 24. On the Margins in the City: Adivasi Seasonal Migration in Western India
- David Mosse, Sanjeev Gupta, and Vidya Shah
- 25. The Making and Unmaking of an Adivasi Working Class in Western Orissa
- Christian Strümpell
- 26. Cosmopolitan Tribals: Frontier Migrants in Delhi
- Duncan McDuie-Ra
- Index
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
About the author
Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
T.N. Madan is Honorary Professor (Sociology) at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and Distinguished Fellow (Adjunct) of the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
Summary
This collection of essays present an intellectual platform to map the current understanding of Indian tribes in social science writing, and to outline the key debates over tribal identities and categorization, state policies towards tribes and their ground reality, and impact of current developmental models on tribals human rights, livelihood, well-being and security, and politics.
