Tribal Development in India: The Contemporary DebateGovind Chandra Rath Among India’s ‘people at the periphery’ are its tribals. Development planning in India has attempted to foster their social and economic empowerment by focusing on food security, health, education, employment and income generation. Fifty years of such planning has, however, failed to narrow the gap between the tribals and the rest of the population, and has instead actually reinforced the unequal exchange between the two. 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 tribal population, including:
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Contents
Foreword by Jean Dreze | 14 |
14 | 82 |
The Dandakaranya | 92 |
Developmentinduced Displacement and Tribal Women | 117 |
Problems | 133 |
Towards a Separate State | 153 |
Land Alienation among Tribals in Uttar Pradesh | 169 |
The Recent Experience of Kerala | 182 |
The Tribal Struggle | 211 |