Rethinking tribe in Indian context: realities, issues and challenges

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction
2 Contextualising Indian Tribes
3 Conceptualising the Context
4 Application and Distortion of Indigeneity as an Expression of Tribe
5 On the Question of Inequality in Tribal Social Formation
6 Politics of Identity and Growing Tribalism in the Darjeeling Hills
7 The Teesta Warriors
8 The Need for Promoting Indigenous Indicators to Tribal Development
9 Towards Demarginalisation of the Lodhas in West Bengal
10 Forest Policies and Tribal Livelihood
11 Making Forest Dwellers Deprived
12 Tribe, Political Party and Local Self-Government
13 Conceptualising Tribal Autonomous Rule in Tripura
14 Salvaging a Common Descent and Lineage Between an Ex-'Criminal Tribe' of India and the Present-Day Gypsies of Europe
15 Tribal Entrepreneurial Growth

The general understanding about tribes in India is somewhat hazy, confusing and at times biased. Tribals are almost invariably equated with marginalised, deprived or disadvantaged groups. With the rapid change of the so-called 'development' scenario since independence, it is imperative to re-examine and re-assess tribes in the Indian context with a view to underline the major concepts that go with tribal formation and see them in the context of their geographical location, historical perspective, ethnicity-linked development and displacement, fallacy of administrative categorisation, identity politics, economic priorities and growing political consciousness.

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