Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Approaches to Tribal Development: A Re-examination; 1. Nehru and Elwin on Tribal Development: Contrasting Perspectives; 2. Faulty Planning in a Tribal Region: The Dandakaranya Development Authority; 3. Development-induced Displacement and Tribal Women; II. Tribal Autonomy Movements and the Issues of Development; 4. Ethno-regionalism and Tribal Development: Problems and Challenges in Jharkhand; 5. The Kamatapur Movement: Towards a Separate State in North Bengal; III. Struggles for Rights to Resources
6. Land Alienation among Tribals in Uttar Pradesh7. Issues in Tribal Development: The Recent Experience of Kerala; 8. From Landlessness to Ownership: The Tribal Struggle for Property Rights; 9. Economic Decline of Tribals in Tamil Nadu: 1947-2000; IV. Development and Social Opportunities; 10. The Tolchha Bhotias: Development and Transhumance; 11. Primary Education in the Tribal Belt of Orissa; 12. Health-Disease-Poverty Nexus among Tribals in Orissa; 13. Ethnography of Development among the Car Nicobarese; About the Editor and Contributors; Index
Summary
The thirteen seminal essays in this volume investigate the failure of the welfare model of development as applied to tribal India, and the consequent efforts by tribes to better their lot by seeking political autonomy and/or the restoration of traditional rights to natural resources-namely, water, forest and land. The book contains case studies of little-known movements such as Dalitism in Jharkhand and the Kamatpur movement in Bengal. Providing a compact yet comprehensive account of the tribal experience of development in India, the contributors examine all the major issues affecting India's
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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