The Bones of Our Mother: Adivasi Dispossession in an Indian State

Ghosh, D

The Bones of Our Mother: Adivasi Dispossession in an Indian State

Ghosh, D

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Citation:: The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, 2022, First, pp. 443-463
Issue Date:: 2022

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dc.contributor.author	Ghosh, D https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9096-5954
dc.contributor.editor	Russell, L
dc.contributor.editor	McGrath, A
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dc.identifier.citation	The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, 2022, First, pp. 443-463
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dc.description.abstract	This chapter examines a case study of the dispossession of forest-dwelling Adivasis in central India. Their lands were appropriated, first by colonial rulers in the nineteenth century, and then by postcolonial governments in the name of national development. It discusses the status of Adivasis in the Indian Constitution and the two Acts that attempted to clarify their rights (The Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act 1996 and the Forest Rights Act 2006). Current national discourses have used the rhetoric of development through resource extraction to subsume Adivasi rights and justify their displacement. Adivasis have responded to the loss of their land and livelihoods with a variety of resistance strategies.
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dc.title	The Bones of Our Mother: Adivasi Dispossession in an Indian State
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Abstract:

This chapter examines a case study of the dispossession of forest-dwelling Adivasis in central India. Their lands were appropriated, first by colonial rulers in the nineteenth century, and then by postcolonial governments in the name of national development. It discusses the status of Adivasis in the Indian Constitution and the two Acts that attempted to clarify their rights (The Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act 1996 and the Forest Rights Act 2006). Current national discourses have used the rhetoric of development through resource extraction to subsume Adivasi rights and justify their displacement. Adivasis have responded to the loss of their land and livelihoods with a variety of resistance strategies.

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