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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Adivasis"”.
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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
This thesis aims to understand the political sociology of Maoist insurgency in India using a combination of disaggregated statistics and qualitative data. The vast majority of insurgent leaders are from dominant or upper caste, middle class backgrounds. Their participation in the insurgency can be …
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Musical and cultural interaction in tribal India: The 'karam' repertory of the Mundas of Chotanagpur
… lands and gained dominance over Mundas and other adivasis. Although the Mundas consider the outsiders unwelcome intruders, they have borrowed their music and dances, segregating them into a communal song and dance repertory of the monsoon season called karam, from the Hindu karma. In this study, …
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Munda Politics and Land: Understanding Indigeneity in Jharkhand, India
… have traced this to a general rejection by Adivasis of State-sanctioned neoliberal development projects like land-grabbing and mining. I analyze, based on a fifteen month long ethnographic study conducted from May 2017 to December 2018, the meaning of land for the Munda community, and how …
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The Yellow Revolution in Malwa : alternative arenas of struggle and the cultural politics of development
… is another such arena which provides women and adivasis (tribals) with a language of empowerment. This research argues that for the language and practice of development to have more relevance to the lives of the poor and for it to engage with the deeper aspirations in their lives, the role of …