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” ...

Leading Adivasi organizations like the All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam (Aasaa) and the Adivasi National Conference (ANC) on Saturday accused the state government of allegedly forcing five ...

As G.N. Devy, the editor of Being Adivasi with the late Abhay Xaxa, shares in his introduction: ‘I would like to hope that it is received not just as a publication or academic exercise but as a ...

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 ...

After choosing a Dalit as a Presidential candidate in the previous elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance named an Adivasi woman as its nominee for the for the ...

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 ...

In the tribal belt of Udaipur, Banswara, and Dungarpur in the southernmost tip of Rajasthan, small signboards dot the dusty highways which lead into settlements of the Bhil Adivasi people. The ...

The Bangladesh Adivasi Forum has put forward 12 demands, including constitutional recognition for Adivasi communities, and the arrest of those responsible for recent attacks on Adivasi students and ...

The possibilities and impossibilities of carving out a separate Adivasi/indigenous studies field within Indian academia are foregrounded. Counterposing the existing modernist and integrationist ...

Odisha finds itself at a remarkable point in its political journey. For the first time, a slew of Adivasi leaders from the state have occupied commanding positions in state and national politics, ...

Adivasi Mela in April! In a deviation from the cultural calendar Odisha government hosted Adivasi Mela at Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. Adivasi Mela this year has also coincided with ...