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A people in need of quick modernization and mainstreaming, or a powerful defense against the advancing march of capitalist growth - these are the two most prominent and stereotypical images of Adivasis in contemporary India, and both do grave injustice to the ground realities. The category Scheduled Tribes, which is purely an administrative category, and does not reflect the immense diversity among the 500 different communities of tribals in India, comprising 8.6 ...
This compendium of ten papers attempts to demonstrate the importance of South Asia as a region to deepening the study of civil wars and armed conflicts and simultaneously, illustrates how civil wars open up questions of sovereignty, citizenship and state contours.
Contextualizing civil wars in South Asia, it discusses at length the military fiscalism and the politics of market reforms at the time of civil war in Sri Lanka. Further taking a close look at the ...
This book is a collaborative review of the Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme in India, which is a relatively recent attempt to make forest policy socially responsible. It is a scholarly yet refreshingly analytical study of the origins, regional variations, and shortcomings of various JFM projects. The book is a rare combination of extensive field study, social science insights and policy studies. It shows that far from being a simple, unified programme, JFM ...
The book is a welcome relief in this regard since it successfully combines the anthropological approach of conducting fieldwork in the area of study and the historical approach of exploring, analysing and interpreting the records in the archives, thus, in the process, "eroding" the autonomy of both the disciplines for a better interpretative framework. The book is divided into three major parts : I — Recreated Pasts (chapters 1 & 2), II—Rebellious ...