The Scheduled Tribes and Their India

Description

The Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology comprises a set of volumes, each on an important theme or sub-area within these disciplines. Along with authoritative introductions and sectional prefaces, each book brings together key essays that apprise readers of the current debates and developments within the area concerned, with specific reference to India. The volumes act both as introductions to sociology and social anthropology and as essential reference works for students, teachers, and researchers. In India, the scheduled tribes or Adivasis are considered either as people in want of modernization or as eco-warriors. Going beyond this binary, The Scheduled Tribes and Their India outlines the debates over scheduled tribe identities and categorizations; state policies and the impact of current developmental models on the human rights, livelihood, and well-being of the scheduled tribes; as well as the gamut of their own political responses. Mapping a range of predominantly sociological and anthropological writing, the essays reflect the conflicts and struggles faced by the scheduled tribes and bring out the enormity and diversity of their experience.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
Tables and Figures
Introduction: Of the Scheduled Tribes, States, and Sociology
Nandini Sundar I. IDENTITY AND POLITICS: CLASSIFICATION, CLASS, CULTURE, AND CONVERSION

1. Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200–1991: From the Archaeology of Mind to the Archaeology of Matter by Sumit Guha
2. From Caste to Tribe: An Autobiographical Essay by Tanka B. Subba
3. Khasi Women and Matriliny: Transformations in Gender Relations by Tiplut Nongbri
4. Anthropology and the ‘Indigenous Slot’: Claims to and Debates About Indigenous Peoples’ Status In India by Bengt G. Karlsson
5. Adivasi vs. Vanvasi: The Politics of Conversion in Central India by Nandini Sundar
6. Loving And Forgetting: Moments of Inarticulacy in Tribal India by Piers Vitebsky
7. When the Lost Soil Beckoned: Life Sketch Narrated by C.K. Janu and Usha Menon (Translator)
8. A Discourse on Non-Violence by K. Satchidanandan

9. Bauxite Business in Odisha by Felix Padel and Samarendra Das
10. Women Against Imperialism: Peasants’ and Workers’ Movements in Madhya Pradesh by Chittaroopa Palit
11. Three Songs of Struggle (Composed and translated by various artists)
12. Indefinitely under Trial: The Case of the Four Pahadiyas by Vasudha Dhagamwar
13. Drought and TADA in Adilabad by K. Balagopal
14. Protective Discrimination: Why Scheduled Tribes Lag Behind Scheduled Castes 316 by Virginius Xaxa
15. Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics, and Reservation by Mritiunjoy Mohanty
16. Pedagogy and Prescription by Bikram Narayan Nanda
17. India’s Forest Tenure Reforms, 1992–2012 by Madhu Sarin
18. Nationalizing Space: Cosmetic Federalism and the Politics of Development in North-east India by Sanjib Baruah

19. The Ethnography of South Asian Foragers by Jana Fortier
20. The Branded (Uchalya) by Laxman Gaikwad
21. The Tiger and the Honey Bee by Savyasaachi
22. Tribal Livelihood and the Agrarian Crisis by Archana Prasad
23. The Market Wheel: Symbolic Aspects of an Indian Tribal Market by Alfred Gell
24. On the Margins in the City: Adivasi Seasonal Migration in Western India by David Mosse, Sanjeev Gupta, and Vidya Shah
25. The Making and Unmaking of an Adivasi Working class in Western Orissa by Christian Strümpell
26. Cosmopolitan Tribals: Frontier Migrants in Delhi by Duncan McDuie-Ra