The Scheduled Tribes and Their India

Politics, Identities, Policies, and Work

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9780199459711

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30/05/2016

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660 pages

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ISBN:

9780199459711

Publication date:

30/05/2016

Hardback

660 pages

First Edition

Nandini Sundar, Madan

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.

Rights:  World Rights

First Edition

Nandini Sundar, Madan

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.

First Edition

Nandini Sundar, Madan

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
II. POLICIES AND POLITICS
  1. Bauxite Business in Odisha by Felix Padel and Samarendra Das
  2. Women Against Imperialism: Peasants’ and Workers’ Movements in Madhya Pradesh by Chittaroopa Palit
  3. Three Songs of Struggle (Composed and translated by various artists)
  4. Indefinitely under Trial: The Case of the Four Pahadiyas by Vasudha Dhagamwar
  5. Drought and TADA in Adilabad by K. Balagopal
  6. Protective Discrimination: Why Scheduled Tribes Lag Behind Scheduled Castes 316 by Virginius Xaxa
  7. Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics, and Reservation by Mritiunjoy Mohanty
  8. Pedagogy and Prescription by Bikram Narayan Nanda
  9. India’s Forest Tenure Reforms, 1992–2012 by Madhu Sarin
  10. Nationalizing Space: Cosmetic Federalism and the Politics of Development in North-east India by Sanjib Baruah
III. WORK AND RESOURCES
  1. The Ethnography of South Asian Foragers by Jana Fortier
  2. The Branded (Uchalya) by Laxman Gaikwad
  3. The Tiger and the Honey Bee by Savyasaachi
  4. Tribal Livelihood and the Agrarian Crisis by Archana Prasad
  5. The Market Wheel: Symbolic Aspects of an Indian Tribal Market by Alfred Gell
  6. On the Margins in the City: Adivasi Seasonal Migration in Western India by David Mosse, Sanjeev Gupta, and Vidya Shah
  7. The Making and Unmaking of an Adivasi Working class in Western Orissa by Christian Strümpell
  8. Cosmopolitan Tribals: Frontier Migrants in Delhi by Duncan McDuie-Ra

Index
Notes on Editor and Contributors

First Edition

Nandini Sundar, Madan

Features

  • This work provides an overview of the major underlying themes in the study of tribes and adivasis in India.
  • Essays bring together a mix of approaches and cover a large spectrum of topics.

First Edition

Nandini Sundar, Madan

First Edition

Nandini Sundar, Madan

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
II. POLICIES AND POLITICS
  1. Bauxite Business in Odisha by Felix Padel and Samarendra Das
  2. Women Against Imperialism: Peasants’ and Workers’ Movements in Madhya Pradesh by Chittaroopa Palit
  3. Three Songs of Struggle (Composed and translated by various artists)
  4. Indefinitely under Trial: The Case of the Four Pahadiyas by Vasudha Dhagamwar
  5. Drought and TADA in Adilabad by K. Balagopal
  6. Protective Discrimination: Why Scheduled Tribes Lag Behind Scheduled Castes 316 by Virginius Xaxa
  7. Social Inequality, Labour Market Dynamics, and Reservation by Mritiunjoy Mohanty
  8. Pedagogy and Prescription by Bikram Narayan Nanda
  9. India’s Forest Tenure Reforms, 1992–2012 by Madhu Sarin
  10. Nationalizing Space: Cosmetic Federalism and the Politics of Development in North-east India by Sanjib Baruah
III. WORK AND RESOURCES
  1. The Ethnography of South Asian Foragers by Jana Fortier
  2. The Branded (Uchalya) by Laxman Gaikwad
  3. The Tiger and the Honey Bee by Savyasaachi
  4. Tribal Livelihood and the Agrarian Crisis by Archana Prasad
  5. The Market Wheel: Symbolic Aspects of an Indian Tribal Market by Alfred Gell
  6. On the Margins in the City: Adivasi Seasonal Migration in Western India by David Mosse, Sanjeev Gupta, and Vidya Shah
  7. The Making and Unmaking of an Adivasi Working class in Western Orissa by Christian Strümpell
  8. Cosmopolitan Tribals: Frontier Migrants in Delhi by Duncan McDuie-Ra

Index
Notes on Editor and Contributors