Rethinking Tribe in Indian Context Realities, Issues and Challenges

includes index and biblioraphy

1 Introduction : Contemporary relevance of tribal studies in India ...1 Part 1 Contexualising and contextualising tribewsw in the indian situation 2 Contextualising Indian tribes : Some common attributes ...21 3 Conceptualising the context: Tribes of north Bengal ...28 4 Application and distortion of indigeneity as an expression of tribe ...41 5 On the question of inequality in tribal social formation ...50 Part II Regional focus on identity formation 6 Politics of identity and Growing tribalism in the Darjeeling hills ...59 7 The Teesta Warriors: A study focussing on the cultural dimensions of the Emerging Lepcha identity in the backdrop of the Anti Dam movement in Sikkim ...71 Part III Mainstream development and tribals 8 The need for promoting indigenous indicators to tribal development : A case study of the Paniyan tribe from Kerala ...85 9 Towards demarginalisation of the Lodhas in West Bengal : A study in the impact of development efforts by the state ...103 Part IV Forest and tribals 10 Forest policies and tribal livelihood : An organisational perspective ...123 11 Making forest dwellers deprived :Examining implementayion process of forest rights act,2006 in india ...134 Part V Governance and tribals 12. Tribe, Political party and local self government: An ethnography on the santals in rural west Bengal ...161 13. Conceptualising tribal autonomous rule in Tripura : Astudy with reference to Tripura tribal area autonomous district council as seen from a historiical perspective ...176 Part VI Emerging areas of tribal studies 14 Salvaging a common descent and lineage between an ex-Criminal tribe of India and the present day gysies of Europe : Weaving history and spinning tales on the boundaries of civilisation ...193 15 Tribal entrepreneurial growth : Drawing comparative inferences from Malaysia and India ...215