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The contributors from various social science disciplines discuss the modes of ethnic construction in the eastern and north-east region of India. They argue that there are forces in the liberal democratic order that exploit and alienate the downtrodden who are denied access to resources and opportunities, being ‘lower castes’, ‘minorities’ and ‘subaltern classes’. Stating that growing deprivation and exploitation finds ...
In the post-World War II period refugee problem emerged out to be one of the biggest problems before the international community. India has also experienced it at a large scale. Factors such as rise of religious nationalism, ethnicisation of politics, state terrorism, anarchic majoritarianism and above all state’s refusal to conform to norms set by the international refugee regime, rendered the refugees stateless and subjects for inhuman ...
Despite 58 years experimentation with the policy of protective discrimination and planned development a large majority of the 80.2 million tribal people languish in abject poverty, landlessness, powerlessness, illiteracy and malnutrition. Being caught in the hangover of the strong patriarchic tradition the women of nearly 700 marginalized tribal communities find themselves highly exploited, subjugated and voiceless. The present book, first of its kind on tribes ...