India's tribes : unfolding realities / edited by Vinay Kumar Srivastava.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Bulk Sales -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Series -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I: Actors -- Chapter 1 The Scheduled Communities and Social Change -- Chapter 2 Reflections on the Current Debate Concerning the Indigenous Peoples -- Chapter 3 Endangered Tribals of India: Booby Trap of Development -- Chapter 4 Mining and Women: The Case of the Maria of Chhattisgarh -- Section II: Institutions -- Chapter 5 From Ethnicity to Organized Complexity in Tribal Customary Laws

Chapter 6 Bringing Culture Back: Traditional Agricultural Knowledge, Food Production and Sustainable Livelihood among Chuktia Bhunjia of Orissa -- Chapter 7 Socio-cultural Life of Trans-border Tribes: A Case Study of the Baites -- Chapter 8 Indigenising Christianity: Politics of Conversion among the Sumi Naga -- Section III: Change -- Chapter 9 Inter-generational Social Mobility: A Study of Konyak Naga Tribe -- Chapter 10 The Jharkhand Movement: Retrospect and Prospect -- Chapter 11 Tribal Resistance Movements and the Politics of Development-induced Displacement in Contemporary Orissa

Chapter 12 Development, Displacement and Labour Market Marginalisation: The Case of Jharkhand Tribal Population -- Chapter 13 Indian Tribals and Search for an Indigenous Identity -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index

This book will give the reader an overall understanding of the tribal condition.

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