The Scheduled Tribes and Their India
Politics, Identities, Policies, and Work
Seiten
2016
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-945971-1 (ISBN)
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-945971-1 (ISBN)
This collection of essays present an intellectual platform to map the current understanding of Indian tribes in social science writing, and to outline the key debates over tribal identities and categorization, state policies towards tribes and their ground reality, and impact of current developmental models on tribals human rights, livelihood, well-being and security, and politics.
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.
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.
Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. T.N. Madan is Honorary Professor (Sociology) at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and Distinguished Fellow (Adjunct) of the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.05.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology |
| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 222 mm |
| Gewicht | 842 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-945971-1 / 0199459711 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-945971-1 / 9780199459711 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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