About the Book
The history of tribal social movements in India is very old. These social movements have impacted tribal culture and tradition in multiple ways. Initially most of these movements were local and largely reformative in character. But as interaction of tribals with outside forces, culture and tradition increased, the nature, magnitude and intensity of social movements also increased. In contrary to the past, gradually these movements shifted from the issue of social transformation in their culture and lifestyle to their dignity, honour, human rights and so on. Of late, electronic media and civil society organizations have provided significant space to these movements, both at the local level and at national and international level. Hence, the support base, either passive or active, of these movements have substantially increased during last couple of decades. In many cases these movements have either halted, slowed or forced the change agents to rethink on the model of development introduced in tribal areas. Articles included in the book deal with nature, types, history and consequences of social movements going on in tribal India, both in historical and contemporary perspective. Articles are both theoretical as well as field based. Attempts have been made by contributors to search roots and nature of changing interface between tribes and their local ecology and environment. The book will be useful for planners, policy makers, change agents, researchers and other professionals.
Contents
1 Introduction / S.N. Chaudhary
2 Socio-Economic Bases of Social Movements in the Tribal Areas of North-East India / M.N. Karna
3 Forest Based Movement in India During the Colonial and Post Colonial Period / K. Gopal Iyer
4 Marginalization and Dissent / D.C. Sah
5 An Analysis of Tribal Movements in Contemporary Odisha / S.N. Tripathy
6 Contradiction between Natural Resources and Development / Y.G. Joshi
7 Contemporary Social Movements in Tribal Regions of Central India / S.N. Chaudhary
8 Sustaining the Environment / Ravi P. Bhatia
9 Sources of Deprivation and Styles of Mobilization / R.K. Mohanty
10 Impacting Development Thought and Practice through Bhili Cultural Rejuvenation / Rahul Banerjee
11 Conservation Ethos and Consequent Environmental Movements and Biodiversity Governance in Tribal
Areas of India / Debashis Debnath
12 Left-Wing Extremism in PESA Area / Swapan Kumar Kolay
13 Struggles for Survival and Tribal Assertions in South- West Odisha / Tapas Kumar Dalapati
14 Naxalite Movement and the Involvement of Tribes / Subhrendu Maiti
15 Adivasi Movement of Chhattisgarh / Mita Sarkar (Das)
16 Forest Conflicts in India / Jaya Phookan
About the Author / Editor
S.N. Chaudhary, Professor of Sociology and former Dean, Faculty of Social Science is currently Rajiv Gandhi Chair Professor at Barkatullah University, Bhopal. He has also been a fellow of the A.N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and SMH, Paris. He has conducted fieldwork among Red Indians in British Columbia (Canada). Dr. Chaudhary has completed 27 research projects and has published over 30 books and 60 research papers. Currently he is working on Tribal Indebtedness, Impact of Technology on Society, Suicide among Tribal Farmers, Tribal Development and Tribal Youth.
