Tribals

Interacting with the ‘Outside’

Urbanisation has offered the Adivasi youth of Jharkhand new opportunities, but also opened them up to new forms of discrimination. Adivasi women are doubly disadvantaged, with their needs more likely…
▶30-Nov-2023
Kumari Vibhuti Nayak, Abha Rao

Margins and Marginality

The Pathalgadi movement of Jharkhand drew on Munda traditions to fashion the 2019 electoral defeat of the incumbent party. A unique interplay of an assertion of constitutional rights, local…
▶04-Jun-2020
Mukulika Banerjee, Manisha Priyam

In Memoriam: Sociologist and Activist Abhay Xaxa

A reflection on the life and legacy of Abhay Xaxa, visionary Adivasi leader, teacher, and thinker, and what the relative silence around his untimely death says about us.
▶02-Apr-2020
Chitrangada Choudhury, Aniket Aga