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Tribal unrest over forest land ; The spectre of extremism looms over the virgin forests of Sabarkantha as armed tribals fell trees, threaten officials and take possession of forestland at the incitement of ultra activists.
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The verdant Polo jungles of Vijaynagar in north Gujarat's
Sabarkantha district have a substantial population of tribals, but
unlike many other tribal areas in the country that reel under
poverty, malnourishment, sickness and violence, there are signs of
prosperity here.
Medieval temples and buildings dot the
reserve forests a habitat of leopards, sloth bear, rare cats and
birds that have become an ecotourism destination. Pucca roads
crisscross the forests and the state Government's ...
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Living On The Margins Neglected by the political class, the tribals have been exploited by the modern economy even as their valuable resources have gained in market value. Their plight has remained virtually invisible.
India Today
; Speaking in the Constituent Assembly of India on December 19, 1946, tribal leader Jaipal Singh remarked that "if there is any group of Indian people that has been shabbily treated it is my people." "The whole history of my people," he said, "is one of continuous exploitation and dispossession by
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Agrarian Relations in Tribal Areas of Andhra Pradesh : Are Conditions Brewing for a Heightened Tribal Land Alienation?
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
; INTRODUCTION Households belonging to Scheduled Tribes (STs) are widely reported to be getting alienated from the land under their possession (APARD, 2004a; Prabhu, 2002; Engineer, 2002; Prasad, 2002; Mander, 2002; Mohanty, 2001; Srinivas, 1995; Swaminathan and Chaudhary, 1995).1 The paper seeks to
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Two conflicting versions of reconversion drive
India Abroad
; India Abroad 02-26-1999 Two conflicting versions of reconversion drive A state government official in Madhya Pradesh's Dindoli district once asked a tribal whether he had received the "patta" (land deed) from the government. The villager replied in the affirmative and presented the "patta" to the
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INDIA'S TRIBAL SCHOOLS ARE QUESTIONED TEACHING PROMOTES BIGOTRY, FANATICISM, RIGHTS GROUPS SAY
The Boston Globe
; GONASIKA, India - The students in this remote tribal school gathered under a billowing saffron banner to sing a timeless ode to Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge. To the pupils and their parents, most of whom are tribals, or Indian aboriginal people, the school is a ray of hope in an
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Identity, Gender and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan.(Review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; UNNITHAN-KUMAR, MAYA. xii, 291 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Providence, Oxford: Berghahn, 1997. [pounds]40.00 Until the late 1940s, Indian anthropology was considered as ...
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