
First Citizens
Studies on Adivasis, Tribals, and Indigenous Peoples in India
Meena Radhakrishna(Editor)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published in December 2016
Book
Hardback
456 pages
978-0-19-945969-8 (ISBN)
Description
The concept of 'tribe' in India is a beleaguered one, and shares overlapping definitions with a number of nomenclatures-'adivasis', 'indigenous people', and even 'Scheduled Tribes'. For centuries, over widely dispersed territories, groups of communities were subjected to very similar inimical processes that led to their destitution.
First Citizens engages with the political and historical processes which go into the making of differential identities and adoption of specific labels by communities, and explores a number of critical issues confronting this extremely vulnerable section of Indian society. The essays document the diverse causes for migrations of India's 'tribal' populations, notably women, and their absorption into both rural and urban informal economies; the multi-layered aggression of 'development' policies impinging on the lives of those inhabiting mineral-rich habitats; the violent interface between politicized forest dwellers and the Indian state; the theory and practice behind the Forest Rights Act and the environmentalists' dilemma; and state legislation which may be enabling or otherwise for forest-based communities.
Highlighting these communities' attempts to organize a broad-based social movement to challenge ecologically destructive and non-inclusive economic policies, this volume chronicles their struggle to claim a common identity as Indian citizens.
First Citizens engages with the political and historical processes which go into the making of differential identities and adoption of specific labels by communities, and explores a number of critical issues confronting this extremely vulnerable section of Indian society. The essays document the diverse causes for migrations of India's 'tribal' populations, notably women, and their absorption into both rural and urban informal economies; the multi-layered aggression of 'development' policies impinging on the lives of those inhabiting mineral-rich habitats; the violent interface between politicized forest dwellers and the Indian state; the theory and practice behind the Forest Rights Act and the environmentalists' dilemma; and state legislation which may be enabling or otherwise for forest-based communities.
Highlighting these communities' attempts to organize a broad-based social movement to challenge ecologically destructive and non-inclusive economic policies, this volume chronicles their struggle to claim a common identity as Indian citizens.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-945969-8 (9780199459698)
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Person
Meena Radhakrishna is an independent researcher. She was formerly a faculty in the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, India.
Editor
Independent RsearcherIndependent Rsearcher, Former Faculty, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Content
I CATEGORIES AND IDENTITIES AS HISTORICAL PROCESS; II DESTRUCTION, LOSS, DISLOCATION; III NEGOTIATIONS AND REDRESSALS