This book is about the lives of the adivasis, also known an tribals, and the circumstances in which they find themselves, in one district, Thane, in Maharashtra, Western India. Thane district has a large adivasi population of the thirty districts of Mahaeashtra, 18 percent of the population of the district and about 13 percent of the total adivasi population of the state. The book is divided into two parts. The impact of the broad social-historical processes ...
