Being Adivasi: Existence, Entitlements, Exclusion, edited by Abhay Xaxa and Ganesh Devy, contains 11 essays on various themes ranging from constitutional and legal measures from “the Adivasi question” ...
Five years after the Forest Rights Act (FRA) was passed in 2006, India’s first village secured community forest rights. That village, Mendha Lekha, quickly built a thriving, resilient local economy on ...
Growing up as an Adivasi woman in a mixed-caste Hindu community in Jharkhand, I was always aware of the triple jeopardy I faced. First, as a woman in general, second as an Adivasi in a caste structure ...
Jacinta Kerketta, a writer of Kurukhar Adivasi origin, is a powerful poet and journalist who advocates for the environment, women's issues and Adivasi rights. It is easy to assume that Jacinta ...
Chunki Marandi, a Santal Adivasi woman, is the mukhiya of Madhuapada. Her husband, Babu Soren, belongs to the same community. Photo: Nolina Minj On a cloudy morning in August, fields of freshly sown ...
Analyses of whole-genome sequence data of urban Sinhalese and two indigenous Adivasi clans in Sri Lanka, which live in geographically separated regions in the country, have shed light on the migratory ...