Nandini Sundar and T. N. Madan
A people in need of quick modernization and mainstreaming, or a powerful defense against the advancing march of capitalist growth - these are the two most prominent and stereotypical images of Adivasis in contemporary India, and both do grave injustice to the ground realities. The category
Scheduled Tribes, which is purely an administrative category, and does not reflect the immense diversity among the 500 different communities of tribals in India, comprising 8.6 per cent of Indias population, has acquired over a period of time, a distinct political and discursive salience.
This collection of essays, divided in three parts, brings together a range of predominantly sociological and anthropological but broadly social science writing that reflects on and illuminates the jungle of dilemmas and conflicts that the scheduled tribes face as they navigate their way through
everyday life. It highlights the enormity of social, cultural, linguistic, and politico-economic diversity among the so-called Scheduled Tribes in India, and aims to provide an intellectual platform for an engagement between the scheduled tribes and their India, as also to map the state of current
sociological/anthropological writing and debate on the scheduled tribes.
Nandini Sundar: Introduction
Part 1: IDENTITY and POLITICS
Section Introduction
1. Sumit Guha: Environment and Ethnicity in India, 12001991
2. Tanka Subba: From Caste to Tribe: An Autobiographical Essay
3. Tiplut Nongbri: Khasi Women And Matriliny: Transformations in
Gender Relations
4. Bengt G. Karlsson: Anthropology and The Indigenous Slot: Claims to and Debates About Indigenous Peoples Status in India.
5. Nandini Sundar: Adivasi Vs. Vanvasi: The Politics Of Conversion in Central India
6. Piers Vitebsky: Loving and Forgetting: Moments of
Inarticulacy in Tribal India
7. Usha Menon (Translator): When the Lost Soil Beckoned: Life Sketch Narrated by C. K. Janu
8. K. Satchidanandan: A Discourse on Non-Violence, in Fire on The Mountain (poem)
Part 2: POLICIES and POLITICS
Section Introduction
9. Felix Padel and
Samarendra Das: Bauxite Business in Odisha
10. Chittaroopa Palit: Women Against Imperialism: Peasants And Workers Movements in Madhya Pradesh
11. Three Songs of Struggle - (Composed and translated by various artists)
12. Vasudha Dhagamwar: Indefinitely under Trial: The Case of the Four
Pahadiyas
13. K. Balagopal: Drought and TADA in Adilabad
14. Virginius Xaxa: Protective Discrimination: Why Scheduled Tribes Lag Behind Scheduled Castes
15. Mritunjay Mohanty: Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics and Reservation
16. Bikram Nanda: Pedagogy and
Prescription
17. Madhu Sarin: Indias Forest Tenure Reforms, 19922012
18. Sanjib Baruah: Nationalizing Space: Cosmetic Federalism and the Politics of Development in Northeast India
Part 3: WORK AND RESOURCES
Section Introduction
19. Jana Fortier: The Ethnography of South
Asian Foragers
20. Laxman Gaikwad: From Uchalaya
21. Savyasaachi: The Tiger and the Honey bee
22. Archana Prasad: Tribal Livelihood and the Agrarian Crises
23. Alfred Gell: The Market Wheel: Symbolic Aspects of an Indian Tribal Market
24. David Mosse, Sanjeev Gupta, and Vidya
Shah: On the Margins in the City: Adivasi Seasonal Migration in Western India
25. Christian Strümpell: The Making and Unmaking of an Adivasi Working Class in Western Orissa
26. Duncan McDuie-Ra: Cosmopolitan Tribals: Frontier Migrants in Delhi
Index
Notes on Editors and
Contributors
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Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the 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.
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