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All Stories for Adivasis
How the Savarna construction of reservation vs merit binary has stalled progress of Dalits across sectors
Prashant Ingole And Camellia Biswas • 4 years agoCreating economic resources and social unification for the oppressed sections of society will help in flattening the brahmanical hegemonic theory of caste and merit.
Maharashtra polls: Yavatmal's Adivasi farmers 'prepared to fight' as govt's promise to fix land rights issue falls flat
Natashatrivedi • 6 years agoAround 30,000 farmers from various parts of the state, including Yavatmal in Vidarbha, covered a distance of 180 kilometres from Nashik to Mumbai on foot, with the aim to gherao the Legislative Assembly building and press their demand for the full implementation of FRA, and also of the loan waiver the government had promised in 2017
In Ashutosh Bhardwaj’s book The Death Script, an intimate study of the everyday strifes of India’s Red Corridor
Aarushi Agrawal • 5 years agoIn a conversation with Firstpost, Bhardwaj talks about his time living in India's Red Corridor, why a solution for the insurgency has not yet been achieved, and the State's apathy towards Adivasis
Jailed poet Varavara Rao isn't a mercenary; he should receive justice, not just sympathy, writes Padmaja Shaw
Padmaja Shaw • 5 years agoThe truth is, time and again, Indian Republic that guarantees free speech and calls itself a socialist and secular democracy incarcerated Varavara Rao for his political beliefs.
Uttar Pradesh's Tharu Adivasi women resist systemic usurpation of their forest land, rights by local authorities
Aditi Pinto • 5 years agoThe Tharu women’s front continues to ensure forest protection and management, besides standing up to repeated assaults on the community by the local police and forest departments.
How sustainable methods adopted by tribal honey hunters could conserve bee population, improve food security
Mongabay India • 5 years agoThe Nilgiris are home to over eighteen ethnic groups. Of them, Kattunaickens, Kurumbas, Sholigas and Irulas are known to be the primary honey hunter tribes.
Coronavirus outbreak has foregrounded India's inequalities; country must re-examine social order when pandemic abates
Aditi Priya And Aarushi Kalra • 5 years agoIn transmission, the coronavirus seems to follow principles of equality, but in so doing exposes with absolute clarity the distinctions between privilege and the lack thereof
A Dalit in the Sangh: Bhanwar Meghwanshi's disillusionment with RSS lays bare agenda of Brahmin colonisation
Yogeshmaitreya • 5 years agoThe story of Bhanwar Meghwanshi, a Dalit youth who was associated with the RSS as a Karsevak, is one of breaking free from the mental colonisation by the Brahmins through the RSS. His fight against the Sangh, after having experienced their agenda against minorities first-hand, is primarily shaped by the intellectual quest for his history, and his vision to resurrect the history of Dalits, which has been appropriated by the RSS.
In Jharkhand's Khunti district, 'pathalgadhi' movement takes centre stage ahead of upcoming Assembly election
Natashatrivedi • 5 years agoPolice visits — and the possible use of excessive force — have become frequent since violence erupted in a neighbouring village over the locally-driven Pathalgadhi movement in June 2018
Adivasis and the Indian State: Overcoming financial constraints, facing social hostility — what 'education' means for four tribal students
Roshan_irma_ritu_abhishek • 6 years agoFour adivasi students narrate their personal journeys during their pursuit of education, and their interactions with non-adivasi communities.