Five Decades of Planning and Tribal Development: Jharkhand and Uttaranchal

The book depicts the life and aspirations of the tribals in the two newly created states of Jharkhand and Uttaranchal. Though the scheduled tribes have lived in the country since time immemorial and there have been various sociological studies on different tribal groups, yet the efforts after independence to make them equal partners in the newly resurgent India through the path of planned development and its impact on the tribals have been rarely studied. This study of the tribal groups in Uttaranchal and Jharkhand which depicts the progress of the developmental programmes implemented through the government and NGOs is an eye-opener because it vividly shows as to how far we have yet to go in the sphere of tribal development.