Being Adivasi: Existence, Entitlements, Exclusion, edited by Abhay Xaxa and Ganesh Devy, contains 11 essays on various themes ranging from constitutional and legal measures from “the Adivasi question” ...

The village of Galkuva lies deep in the heart of southern Gujarat, in Tapi district. On July 16, light droplets of rain pattered down as we made our way to a spacious mud house amidst fields of ...

In 2017, Korchi taluka in Gadchiroli district of Vidarbha in Maharashtra was gearing up for the Raavan dahan event on Dussehra. It was to be a regular evening with the effigy of the demon king going ...

On January 31, when the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) arrested former Jharkhand chief minister (CM) Hemant Soren—after a brief period of the alleged rumour that he has gone ‘missing’—political ...

In the tribal belt of Udaipur, Banswara, and Dungarpur in the southernmost tip of Rajasthan, small signboards dot the dusty highways which lead into settlements of the Bhil Adivasi people. The ...

Two members seriously opposed this – B H Khardekar, the newly-elected member from Kolhapur, and Jaipal Singh Munda. While Khardekar made the well-known arguments against prohibition (revenue, social ...