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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword by Shantha Sinha -- Preface -- --Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Conceptual Framework -- --V. Srinivasa Rao -- PART I: Dichotomy of Rights and Exclusion: Adivasis in-between -- --Chapter 1 -- --Isolation, Inclusion and Exclusion: The Case of Adivasis in India -- --Virginius Xaxa -- --Chapter 2 -- --In Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The Changing face of Health and Disease Management Practices among Gonds in a Central Indian Village -- --S. N. Chaudhary -- --Chapter 3 -- --Abandoned by Nation: Adverse Possessions and the Denial of Tribal Rights to Habitat in Indo-Bangladesh Border -- --Sajal Nag -- --Chapter 4 -- --Inclusions and Exclusions of Adivasi Women: Subsuming Challenges from the Past, present and Future in Chhattisgarh -- --Ilina Sen -- --Chapter 5 -- --Expropriation of Land and Cultures and the Rise of the Radical Left: The Odisha Story and Beyond -- --Subrat Kumar Sahu and Mamata Dash -- --Chapter 6 -- --Kidnap of Collector in Orissa: The Question of Tribal Exclusion -- --G. Haragopal -- --Chapter 7 -- --Tribal Rights and Big Capital: Critical Reflections on the Growing Dichotomy and Role of CorporateMedia -- --Sudhir Pattnaik -- PART II: Untouchability, Atrocities and Marginalisation: An Unspoken Empirical Veracity -- --Chapter 8 -- --Understanding Adivasi Dispossession from their Land and Resources in terms of Investment-Induced Displacement -- --Felix Padel -- --Chapter 9 -- --Livelihoods of Adivasis in India: Continuing Marginalisation -- --G. Muralidhar -- --Chapter 10 -- --Adivasis Water Exchange and Caste-Based Water Lords: A Case of Groundwater Market in a Village of Gujarat, India -- --Farhat Naz -- --Chapter 11 -- --Atrocities against Adivasis: An Implicit Dimension of Social Exclusion -- --G. C. Pal -- --Chapter 12 -- --Exclusion and Persistence of Poverty among Adivasis in India: A Disaggregated Analysis -- --Amaresh Dubey -- PART III: Inclusive Policies: Myth or Reality -- --Chapter 13 -- --An Unbroken History of Broken Promises: Exploration from a Tribal Perspective -- --Pradip Prabhu -- --Chapter 14 -- --Language and Schooling of Adivasi Children in India: Issues Relating to Their Right to Education -- --V. Srinivasa Rao -- --Chapter 15 -- --Developmental Challenges of Nomadic and Denotified Tribes of India: With Special Reference to Andhra Pradesh -- --Malli Gandhi -- --Chapter 16 -- --Decentralised Governance and Implementation of PESA in Tribal Areas: Evidences from Western Tribal Belt of India -- --Yatindra Singh Sisodia and Tapas K. Dalapati -- Index

This volume examines the processes and impacts of exclusion on the Adivasis (tribal or indigenous people) in India and what repercussions these have for their constitutional rights. The chapters explore a wide range of issues connected to the idea of exclusion — land and forest resources, habitats and livelihoods, health and disease management, gender relations, language and schooling, water resources, poverty, governance, markets and technology, and development challenges — through case studies from different parts of the country. The book argues that any laws intended to safeguard the fundamental rights of Adivasis must acknowledge the fact that their diverse and complex identities are not homogenous, and that uniform laws have failed to address their systemic marginalisation since the colonial era. This work appeals for a serious and meaningful political intervention towards tribal development. The volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of tribal and Third World studies, sociology and social anthropology, exclusion studies and development studies.

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