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The Implications of India’s New President

Vol. 57, Issue No. 32, 06 Aug, 2022
Akanksha Khullar

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A President of Presence?

Vol. 57, Issue No. 32, 06 Aug, 2022

India’s first tribal president reveals the potentials as well as pitfalls of representative democracy.

Coding the Indigenous

Vol. 57, Issue No. 15, 09 Apr, 2022
Sujit Kumar

While the religious code will undoubtedly create an imagined community by identifying common traits of spirituality among the Scheduled Tribes, challenges are bound to appear due to the presence of Adivasis from other religions as well as the plurality in Adivasi discourse. To overcome this challenge, community leaders will require to create a consensus based on grounded realities.

 

Setting the Record Straight on Birsa Munda and His Political Legacy (Part-II)

Although the role of Birsa Munda has been seminal in championing the Adivasi cause, his political movements and legacy have been distorted, like other prominent Indian historical figures, including B R Ambedkar and M K Gandhi. Despite misrepresentations, Birsa Munda and his politics continue to inspire not just Adivasis but also Dalits and other marginalised sections in their pursuit of attaining social justice.

Setting the Record Straight on Birsa Munda and His Political Legacy (Part- I)

Although the role of Birsa Munda has been seminal in championing the Adivasi cause, his political movements and legacy have been distorted, like other prominent Indian historical figures, including B R Ambedkar and M K Gandhi. Despite misrepresentations, Birsa Munda and his politics continue to inspire not just Adivasis but also Dalits and other marginalised sections in their pursuit of attaining social justice.

Book Clubs and the Dialectics of Privilege

Vol. 57, Issue No. 2, 08 Jan, 2022
Bijaya Biswal

Sometimes, book clubs are spaces where the privileged come to feel less guilty about their power.

 

The Changing Dynamics of Tribal Societies in India

Vol. 56, Issue No. 34, 21 Aug, 2021
Aashish Xaxa

India’s Tribes: Unfolding Realities edited by Vinay Kumar Srivastava, New Delhi, California, London and Singapore: SAGE Publications, 2021; pp 294, ₹1,295 (hardcover).

 

Undertrial Prisoners in Bihar

Vol. 55, Issue No. 7, 15 Feb, 2020
Praveen Kumar, Vijay Raghavan

Following the liquor ban in Bihar in 2016, many people from Dalit and Adivasi backgrounds were arrested under the prohibition law. A majority of them were behind bars under exaggerated charges or because of procedural lapses by visiting legal aid lawyers. Most of the undertrials are unable to get released on bail due to their inability to produce suitable sureties or pay the bail amount. There is an urgent need for sociolegal intervention with undertrial prisoners towards ensuring their legal rights.

 

How Many People Will We Continue to Displace In the Name of Development?

This reading list looks at why we need to conceptualise an inclusive model of development that does not shortchange marginalised communities.

Tribal History sans Contemporary Politics

Vol. 51, Issue No. 21, 21 May, 2016
Ilina Sen

Narratives from the Margins: Aspects of Adivasi History in India edited by Sanjukta Das Gupta and Raj Sekhar Basu; New Delhi: Primus Books, 2012; pp 312, ₹995.

Right to Contest

Vol. 51, Issue No. 12, 19 Mar, 2016
Ruchi Gupta

All progressive forces need to come together to roll back the recent moves by the Bharatiya Janata Party Governments of Rajasthan and Haryana to curtail the right to contest elections through arbitrary and restrictive criteria. Parliament has just passed an amendment to the President's address reiterating the fundamental right to contest elections. This is a battle for India's democracy.

Eviction of Landless Tribals in Ahmadnagar

Vol. 38, Issue No. 36, 06 Sep, 2003
Asad Bin Saif

In yet another incident that gives the lie to laudable pieces of legislation like the Land Ceiling Act 1961, and to other constitutional provisions that extend protection to weaker sections, several landless adivasis in two tehsils of Ahmadnagar district were evicted from land they had cultivated for some years now.

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