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Adivasis and the Indian State: Beyond access, educational institutes must be sensitive towards cultural differences, prevent positioning of tribals as inferiors
Richard_hemraj_toppo • 5 years agoLately, educational institutes have become a prominent site of adverse integration of the Adivasis into the caste-fold, where the Adivasi culture is often ridiculed and condescended as ‘primitive’ and the non-Adivasi culture is projected as the modernist ideal norm
Adivasis and the Indian State: Lauded for dance and music but pushed to margins, Gujarat's Siddi Muslims lament state apathy
Farida_k_almubrik • 5 years agoWhile the kings of princely states had shown a lot of respect and generosity to Gujarat's Siddi Muslims, the post-independence reality has been of rejection, humiliation and neglect as the tribal community struggles to retain its culture, Muslim identity and land
Adivasis and the Indian State: Tamil Nadu's Irular community battles govt apathy, police hostility in fight for identity
Prema Revathi • 5 years agoA majority of the Irular living in the plains stay along water bodies and are semi-nomadic.
Adivasis and the Indian State: Abysmal wages, ineffective labour unions leave tribal tea garden workers high and dry
Christopher Binay Nag • 5 years agoIt has been 71 years since Independence. Yet, little has changed for tea garden workers, and, in a sense, they are yet to taste real freedom.
Adivasis and the Indian State: Coffee plantations and reserved forests in Karnataka have stripped Jenu Kurubas of land, forest rights
Greeshma Kuthar And Natesh Ullal • 5 years agoJenu Kurubas were listed as a primitive tribe by the state government. Now, they are listed as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG).
Adivasis and the Indian State: How local self-governance in a Maharashtra gram panchayat is empowering tribal women
Pooja Kudal • 6 years agoThe Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act in Scheduled Areas has been creating a platform for tribal women to assert their agency.
Adivasis and the Indian State: Forced displacement takes toll on mental health of Kerala tribals; community-led initiatives may hold solution
Nevin • 6 years agoSome officials believe mental health issues resulting in suicides, alcoholism, drug abuse and a sudden change in food habits might have resulted in the early deaths of many tribal men.
Adivasis and the Indian State: How onset of industrialism, modernisation wreaked cultural, social and economic havoc among tribals
Eugenesoren • 6 years agoThe adivasi community might not be the most marginalised, but it is certainly the most misunderstood.
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Adivasis and the Indian State: Caught between Hinduisation and indifferent govt, Madias of Maharashtra struggle to make ends meet
Shone Satheesh • 6 years agoMajority of the families belonging to the Madia tribe in Maharashtra, whose lives have been disrupted by an encroaching ‘civilisation’, are left with a Hobson’s choice — assimilate and lose their Adivasi culture or resist and lose their lives