Dibrugarh: The All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam (Aasaa) will stage a two-hour sit-in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on December 8 to draw attention to the long-standing demand for Scheduled ...

The Bangladesh Adivasi Forum has put forward 12 demands, including constitutional recognition for Adivasi communities, and the arrest of those responsible for recent attacks on Adivasi students and ...

Leading Adivasi organizations like the All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam (Aasaa) and the Adivasi National Conference (ANC) on Saturday accused the state government of allegedly forcing five ...

Students protesting against the removal of images featuring the word “adivasi” – a collective term for a number of ethnic minority groups in Bangladesh – from textbooks have been attacked by a group ...

Guwahati: Thousands of tea tribe and Adivasi community members on Monday took out a massive protest march in Assam’s Dibrugarh, demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. The communities have been ...

Odisha finds itself at a remarkable point in its political journey. For the first time, a slew of Adivasi leaders from the state have occupied commanding positions in state and national politics, ...

Nearly 5,000 Adivasis staged a rail blockade at the Kokrajhar railway station in western Assam to demand their inclusion in the scheduled tribe (ST) category on Monday morning, disrupting the movement ...

KAKINADA: As many as 554 villages in Andhra Pradesh, including 240 in Srikakulam district, 182 in Vizianagaram, 91 villages in Visakhapatnam, 40 in Kakinada and one village in Eluru district, are ...

Growing up as an Adivasi woman in a mixed-caste Hindu community in Jharkhand, I was always aware of the triple jeopardy I faced. First, as a woman in general, second as an Adivasi in a caste structure ...

Language, land and legacy. For millennia, Adivasi knowledge has been rooted in forests, rivers, and mountains. This is not a ...

Gujjars traditionally belonged to the Kshatriya caste, and ruled over the Gurjara-Pratihara Kingdom -- an area comprising almost 60 per cent of South Asia during the 8th and 9th centuries -- claims ...