Download or read book The Scheduled Tribes and Their India written by Nandini Sundar and published by Oxford in India Readings in So. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A people in need of quick modernization and mainstreaming, or a powerful defense against the advancing march of capitalist growth---these are the two most prominent and stereotypical images of Adivasis in contemporary India, and both do grave injustice to the ground realities. The category Scheduled Tribes, which is purely an administrative category, and does not reflect the immense diversity among the 500 different communities of tribals in India, comprising 8.6 per cent of Indias population, has acquired over a period of time, a distinct political and discursive salience. This collection of essays, divided in three parts, brings together a range of predominantly sociological and anthropological but broadly social science writing that reflects on and illuminates the jungle of dilemmas and conflicts that the scheduled tribes face as they navigate their way through everyday life. It highlights the enormity of social, cultural, linguistic, and politico-economic diversity among the so-called Scheduled Tribes in India, and aims to provide an intellectual platform for an engagement between the scheduled tribes and their India, as also to map the state of current sociological/anthropological writing and debate on the scheduled tribes.
Download or read book We Were Adivasis written by Megan Moodie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state’s relationship to “Scheduled Tribes,” or adivasis—historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. She shows how they must simultaneously affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past: we were adivasis. Moodie takes readers to a diversity of settings, including households, tribal council meetings, and wedding festivals, to reveal the aspirations that are expressed in each. Crucially, she demonstrates how such aspiration and identity-building are strongly gendered, requiring different dispositions required of men and women in the pursuit of collective social uplift. The Dhanka strategy for occupying the role of adivasi in urban India comes at a cost: young women must relinquish dreams of education and employment in favor of community-sanctioned marriage and domestic life. Ultimately, We Were Adivasis explores how such groups negotiate their pasts to articulate different visions of a yet uncertain future in the increasingly liberalized world.
Download or read book Indigenous Peoples Poverty and Development written by Gillette H. Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book that documents poverty systematically for the world's indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The volume compiles results for roughly 85 percent of the world's indigenous peoples. It draws on nationally representative data to compare trends in countries' poverty rates and other social indicators with those for indigenous sub-populations and provides comparable data for a wide range of countries all over the world. It estimates global poverty numbers and analyzes other important development indicators, such as schooling, health, and social protection. Provocatively, the results show a marked difference in results across regions, with rapid poverty reduction among indigenous (and non-indigenous) populations in Asia contrasting with relative stagnation - and in some cases falling back - in Latin America and Africa. Two main factors motivate the book. First, there is a growing concern among poverty analysts worldwide that countries with significant vulnerable populations - such as indigenous peoples - may not meet the Millennium Development Goals, and thus there exists a consequent need for better data tracking conditions among these groups. Second, there is a growing call by indigenous organizations, including the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples, for solid, disaggregated data analyzing the size and causes of the "development gap."
Download or read book People of India written by Kumar Suresh Singh and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnological study.
Download or read book Caste Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age written by Susan Bayly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an historical and anthropological approach, she frames her analysis within the context of India's dynamic economic and social order, interpreting caste not as an essence of Indian culture and civilization, but rather as a contingent and variable response to the changes that occurred in the subcontinent's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The idea of caste in relation to Western and Indian 'orientalist' thought is also explored.
Download or read book The Tribes and Castes of Bengal written by Sir Herbert Hope Risley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in India written by Kamal K. Misra and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scheduled Tribes written by Govind Sadashiv Ghurye and published by Bombay : Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1963 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scheduled Castes written by K. S. Singh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents as accurate a list of India's Scheduled Castes as can currently be made. It reveals a highly heterogeneous profile of Scheduled Caste communities, which are spread across the country and which are mainly landless, with little control over resources such as land, forest and water. It also shows the persistence of 'untouchability' in many pockets, and the variable measures of equality that have so far been achieved in the struggle for social upliftment by the Scheduled Castes. It reveals that these castes have been increasingly involved in modern occupations, such as service in government departments wherever traditional industries have declined. As a consequence, a new sense of self-respect is in the air, gradually replacing some of the old myths which sought to legitimize their degradation.
Download or read book Democracy Development and Decentralisation in India written by Chandan Sengupta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering new insights into the political economy of contemporary India, this book considers how and why unequal patterns of economic growth have taken shape within the context of a democratic and decentralising political system, and how this has impacted upon the processes of economic development.
Download or read book Tribes of India written by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status Of Scheduled Tribes In India written by H.C. Upadhyay and published by Anmol Publications PVT. LTD.. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According To 1991 Census, The Population Of Scheduled Castes And Scheduled Tribes Were 13.82 Crore And 6.78 Crore Constituting 16.48 Per Cent And 8.08 Per Cent Respectively Of The Country S Total Population. As Compared To 1981 Census, There Has Been Slight Increase In Scheduled Tribe Population (7.85 Per Cent Of The Population). While The Constitution Has Prescribed Certain Protective Measures And Safeguards For Scheduled Tribes, Government Of India Is Giving All The Facilities For Their Proper Development. After Independence, Several Schemes Were Launched For The Betterment Of Scheduled Tribes. The Central And State Govt. Are Spending Crores Of Rupees For Their Upliftment Through Five Year Plans.The Present Collection Of Research Papers/Articles On The Scheduled Tribes Are Multi-Disciplinary Investigation Into Various Aspects Of Socio-Economic Problems Being Faced By The Scheduled Tribes In India. The Contributors Have Also Given Suggestions For Improving Their Conditions. Thus, This Outstanding Book Will Be Indeed Of Immense Use To Researchers, Students Of Various Disciplines And Policy Makers Of The Country.
Download or read book Where India Goes written by Diane Coffey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half the people who defecate in the open live in India. Around the world, people live healthier lives than in centuries past, in part because latrines keep faecal germs away from growing babies. India is an exception. Most Indians do not use toilets or latrines, and so infants in India are more likely to die than in neighbouring poorer countries. Children in India are more likely to be stunted than children in sub-Saharan Africa.Where India Goes demonstrates that open defecation in India is not the result of poverty but a direct consequence of the caste system, untouchability and ritual purity. Coffey and Spears tell an unsanitized story of an unsanitary subject, with characters spanning the worlds of mothers and babies living in villages to local government implementers, senior government policymakers and international development professionals. They write of increased funding and ever more unused latrines.Where India Goes is an important and timely book that calls for the annihilation of caste and attendant prejudices, and a fundamental shift in policy perspectives to effect a crucial, much overdue change.
Download or read book Mannewar written by Omprakash S Bone and published by Notion Press. This book was released on with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omprakash S Bone has a long-time acquaintance with the Mannewar Tribals, having researched on them in detail through census researches, a thorough perusal of their ways and customs, census references, historical and anthropological surveys. The author attempts to bridge the gap by trying to make the tribals aware of their rights and privileges, so as to bring them out of their poverty and illiteracy, ills that keep them moored in their ignorance, especially in the states of Maharashtra, M.P. and Chhattisgarh. This is a book that will appeal to lovers of history and to all those who strive to fight for tribal rights.
Download or read book Land Alienation and Politics of Tribal Exploitation in India written by Suratha Kumar Malik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores tribal land alienation problems in India and tribal agitation against land encroachment and alienation. It discusses India’s tribal land problem and explains how despite legislation to protect tribal lands, the problem has not been resolved since neither the letter nor the spirit of the law has been implemented. Due to continuous land encroachment and alienation by outsiders, the negligence of the revenue administration and the apathy of the central and state government, the situation concerning tribal land in the country have became precarious. In this context, the book highlights the process of land estrangement among the tribes and the related movements, focusing on the Narayanpatna land movement in the Koraput district of Odisha. It argues that land remains a central issue that is extremely important for tribes as it directly affects their life, livelihood, freedom and development, and that the cultural attachment of tribes and their views regarding the idea of ‘place’ (land) furnishes crucial perspectives in understanding the politics of collective resistance. It also discusses the politicization of group identity and material interest against the outside authority as the basis of the unrest among the tribes, and when the grudges of the people are hardened due to insensitivity and tyranny, the extent of tribal resistance escalates, leading to conflict between the state and its own people. Given its scope, this book is a valuable resource for students and research scholars, as well as for policymakers and anyone interested in Indian democracy and development in general, and tribal problems, issues and politics in particular.
Download or read book Sociology and Social Anthropology in India written by Yogesh Atal and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Council of Social Science Research, the premier organization for social science research in India, conducts periodic surveys in the major disciplines of the social sciences to assess disciplinary developments as well as to identify gaps in research in these disciplines.
Download or read book The Tribal Culture of India written by Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
