Being Adivasi: Existence, Entitlements, Exclusion, edited by Abhay Xaxa and Ganesh Devy, contains 11 essays on various themes ranging from constitutional and legal measures from “the Adivasi question” ...
Bitiya Murmu’s father died around 1980, when she was just a year-and-a-half old. As the family members grieved their loss, they did not realise that for the next two decades, their lives would be ...
On February 4, while addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Vijay Sankalp Rally in Deoghar, Jharkhand, Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused the state chief minister Hemant Soren of “turning a ...
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 ...
In the tribal belt of Udaipur, Banswara, and Dungarpur in the southernmost tip of Rajasthan, small signboards dot the dusty highways which lead into settlements of the Bhil Adivasi people. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
The possibilities and impossibilities of carving out a separate Adivasi/indigenous studies field within Indian academia are foregrounded. Counterposing the existing modernist and integrationist ...
Amid renewed demands for declaration of national holiday on World Adivasi Day, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was celebrated with much enthusiasm across the Bhadrachalam ...
Adivasi Mela in April! In a deviation from the cultural calendar Odisha government hosted Adivasi Mela at Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. Adivasi Mela this year has also coincided with ...
KHANDALA (ADILABAD): Parents of some Adivasi youth are worried about their children getting habituated to drinking liquor and eating biryani, which are being offering free by major political parties ...