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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Adivasi"”.
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Stories as theories: co-building critical and humanizing literacies’ spaces with Adivasi (indigenous) and De-notified tribal (DNT) youth in central India
… decolonizing literacies’ classroom space, where Adivasi and De-notified Tribal (DNT) youths reclaim their spaces for counterstorying, especially in environments where their voices and agencies are overbearingly marginalized. This work involves critical ethnography, humanizing …
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Munda Politics and Land: Understanding Indigeneity in Jharkhand, India
… in India has been the site of contention between Adivasi communities, like the Munda, and the national government. This is a relationship between these communities and centralized, outside power that has existed for centuries in different forms. To understand this ongoing conflict, we need to …
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Evidence and Sustenance in Transnational Indigenous Literatures
… and archives). Accordingly, the thesis places Adivasi writings from India in conversation with Native American and Australian First Nations literatures and methods. Chapter 1 provides literary readings on evidence. I explore the “archival poetics” (AP1) and “ethnographic refusal” (A. Simpson …
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An interdisciplinary approach to Santal architectural history
Santals are one of the many Adivasi (indigenous) communities in eastern India and are particularly renowned for precision and craftsmanship in their domestic architecture. The visually stunning dwellings and settlements fascinated me as an undergraduate architecture student, and now, in this …
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Musical and cultural interaction in tribal India: The 'karam' repertory of the Mundas of Chotanagpur
… and cultural interaction of the Mundas, an adivasi (tribal, aboriginal) group of east-central India, with Hindu caste communities living in the same region. Over the last three hundred years, Hindu and Muslim outsiders, whom Mundas call diku (alien, exploiter), moved into Mundari lands and …
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Politics and conflict in development: land, law and progress in Jharkhand, India
The Adivasis are the indigenous communities of India. After a long struggle for autonomy, spanning centuries, their dream of an indigenous state was finally realised with the formation of Jharkhand in 2000. The birth of Jharkhand brought with it hope that moving forward the Adivasis would have more …
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The political economy of conflict between indigenous communities and dominant societies: adivasis, Maoist insurgents and the state in the central Indian tribal belt
… caste landowners. On the hand are tribal or adivasi landowning cultivators whose relative autonomy has come under increasing pressure over the past two centuries as the state has established control over natural resources in their area. Their support for the insurgents does not just manifest …