The Adivasi Way Of Life At Stake
A lot of effort is on in India and the world to identify the values that form the lifeforce of … Continue reading The Adivasi Way Of Life At Stake
A lot of effort is on in India and the world to identify the values that form the lifeforce of … Continue reading The Adivasi Way Of Life At Stake
The bigger presence of the RSS is a source of North India’s greater poverty and ignorance of people’s welfarism. In … Continue reading North-South: It’s southern welfare economy versus RSS highway economy
This satire has become popular that people want Congress to win, but if Congress is helping in making BJP win, … Continue reading Chhattisgarh : Congress defeat by playing with Shakuni’s dice!
Rice growing farmer communities refuse to accept new fortified rice kernels, while public health experts express concern at the food … Continue reading ‘Plastic Rice’: Why the Govt’s Experiment With an Artificial Grain is Hard to Swallow for Rural Adivasis
Birsa Munda, born on November 15, 1875 in Ulihatu village (present Jharkhand) in British times, died mysteriously – reportedly of … Continue reading Did Birsa Munda die in vain?
The second Public Hearing, required to obtain the Environment Clearance for the Sijimali Bauxite Mining Project of Vedanta, met with … Continue reading Resounding Opposition From Local Villagers To Mining By Vedanta During The Second Public Hearing
Rayagada, Odisha: The public hearing seeking environmental clearance for bauxite mining by Vedanta Limited at Sijimali in Odisha’s Rayagada district concluded on October 16 (Monday) … Continue reading Public Hearing For Vedanta’s Sijimali Mining Ends Amid Opposition By Villagers
How are such areas identified and governed? What did the Bhuria committee in 1995 recommend? How have the provisions of … Continue reading The state of India’s Scheduled Areas
Even for someone who worked extensively on Adivasi history, his thesis ‘Contesting Claims and Contingencies of Rule: Singhbhum 1800 – … Continue reading Umar Khalid, the Historian: His Continued Imprisonment Is a Loss to the Academic World
Railway records obtained using RTI show millions of tonnes of coal from a mine in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forest went … Continue reading Adani power stations get coal from Hasdeo Arand mine allocated to Rajasthan
The police filed FIRs for the killing of villagers only after their kin filed petition, provided an account riddled with … Continue reading Chhattisgarh Judgment Upends Justice, Fraternity and Basic Common Sense
Extract On 6 December 1959, the image of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurating the Damodar Valley Corporation dam project … Continue reading Multiple worlds of the Adivasi
A right-wing nationalist agenda would make us believe Dwijas alone were civilisation builders in India. But Indian civilisation began with … Continue reading A New Civilisational Discourse for India
For the Hindutva movement, Birsa Munda is an icon only because he and his followers attacked missionaries and the church. … Continue reading Remembering Birsa Munda, the Social Reformer and Revolutionary Leader
“Agar jangal ko dil mane to Adivasi uski dhadkan hai”—if the forest is a heart then Adivasis are its heartbeat—said … Continue reading The Brahminical and Colonial history behind Adivasis’ Demonisation and Criminalisation
Failing to understand the Adivasi world view and imposing the dominant development paradigm on Adivasi peoples is affecting their identity … Continue reading How development excludes Adivasi peoples
Tribal communities living around urban spaces face a host of issues when it comes to unlocking the full potential and … Continue reading Urbanising around tribal land
Shamrao Parulekar was born on October 2, 1902, in a landlord family of Bijapur in Karnataka. His father Vishnupant Parulekar … Continue reading Comrade Shamrao Parulekar
August 3 is the death anniversary of Comrade Shamrao Parulekar. It is also the birth anniversary of Krantisimha Comrade Nana … Continue reading Comrade Shamrao Parulekar – A Tribute
The Adani Group reaps benefits worth thousands of crores of rupees as the coal scam continues under the Modi government … Continue reading Coalgate 2.0
M for the Muslim factor can only be a winner if multiple choices do not give an advantage to the … Continue reading How the M-Factor Can Catapult a Winner in UP but Failed in 2014
India’s Adivasis often work in conditions commonly described as ‘modern-day slavery’, but they are not slaves. Their unfreedom is both … Continue reading Adivasis in India: modern-day slaves or modern-day workers?
Abstract This paper argues that social policies work towards the subject-making of subaltern citizens by defining the grammar of state–subaltern … Continue reading State, social policy and subaltern citizens in adivasi India
Birsa Munda, the “Dharthi Aba” (father of the earth), as known amongst tribal, waged a massive war against British rule … Continue reading About Birsa Munda [1875-1900] Biography and Life History
Birsa Munda (15 November 1875 – 9 June 1900) was an Indian tribal independence activist, and folk hero who belonged … Continue reading Birsa Munda
The long-running struggle of the Adivasis in Kerala enters a crucial phase as the State government resists their main demand … Continue reading The Adivasi struggle