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Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India’s ‘untouchables’ and ‘tribals’ fit into the global economy. Ground Down by Growth reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed ...
This compendium of 10 papers, presented at a conference, held at the Royal Asiatic Society of London, attempts to explore the ways that Indian adivasi (tribal) people have been understood over the past two centuries. It investigate whether there is anything particularly adivasi about the forms of resistance that have been labeled as adivasi movements.
Moving beyond stereotypes of tribal rebellion, it argues that it is important to explore how and why particular ...
Windows into a Revolution, edited by Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew, the first book in the series offers glimpses into the spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people living amidst the revolutions. Weaving through the nostalgic reflections of former Bengali Naxalites; the resurgence of ancestral conflicts in the spread of the Maoists in the remote hills of western Nepal; the disillusionments of dalits of ...
Popular discourses on indignity and development argue that poor, colonized, and exploited indigenous people must be protected, their cultures preserved, and their rights enshrined in human rights legislation. Critiquing this notion, this book underscores that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may actually misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help.In the Shadows of the State presents a fine study of indigenous ...