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 ...

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 ...

The recent attempts of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Hemant Soren to bring Adivasi identity to the centre of politics comes at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been leading the ...

Five years after the Forest Rights Act (FRA) was passed in 2006, India’s first village secured community forest rights. That village, Mendha Lekha, quickly built a thriving, resilient local economy on ...

Adivasi presence is ubiquitous in Indian socio-political life. The presence owes to Adivasis’ own urge and verve to continue with their exclusive cultural traditions. Unlike the politically much hyped ...

Dumbi, a tall, muscular teenager, walks silently outside his village, which consists of about 70 houses, mostly of the Adivasi Ho community, in Jharkhand. The sixteen-year-old lost his father when he ...

Tasvir, a young poet-author at Muskaan, a learning centre in Bhopal, tells us how writing can be used to empower his historically stigmatised community: “Pardhis have a rich history. But the way ...