State, Law, and Adivasi: Shifting Terrains of Exclusion

This volume presents an overview of the relationship between the state, law, and Adivasis that have experienced a profound political shift due to privatization of natural resources. It discusses the role of the corporates and its impact on livelihoods of the Adivasis in India.

For the Indian state, a significant challenge is to establish a new normative framework for indigenous autonomy based on the values of equality and sustainability. This calls for recognition of the right to self-determination and exercise of collective rights of the Adivasis.

The chapters in this volume examine:

'Exclusion' as a useful framework for analyzing the various axes of inequality that affect the Adivasi communities

How state, development, and Adivasi politics play out in entangled ways in the social, political and legal domains

The interplay of and the deep tension between the promise of legal protection and the realities of inadequate implementation.