How is gender ideology reproduced in adivasi societies? How far can gender constructions be instrumental in perpetuating women's subjugation and exploitation? Focusing upon Chotanagpur, now a part of the newly formed state of Jharkhand, Shashank Sinha tries to raise questions that are of paramount concern yet are so peripheral in the existing studies on tribes and gender. Investigating traditions, an area largely ignored by historians and social scientists, Sinha ...