Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Indigeneity in transition: Locating indigenous people (adivasis) in the indigeneity-class intersection; 2 Property rights transitions and alienation of indigenous people's (adivasis') land: Pre-colonial period; 3 Pauperisation and proletarianisation of adivasis: Colonial and post-colonial property relations; 4 Not a frozen class: Indigenous people (adivasis) in the Kerala model of development; 5 Adivasis in a development triangle: Decentralisation, neoliberalism and the Kerala model
6 Contested frontiers: Adivasi land restitution law and settler narratives7 Re-articulating adivasi land rights and identities: Tensions in the indigeneity-class intersection; 8 Epilogue The struggle continues: Indigeneity and social change; Index