A history of adivasi women in post-independence Eastern India : the margins of the marginals /
Debasree De.
- xkiv, 293 pages ; 22 cm
A history of the history less, and the marginalization of Adivasi voices.
A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India is a path-breaking book that explores the current status of Adivasi women in the four states of eastern India with high percentages of Adivasis—Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal.
Debasree De engages with the recent paradigm of ‘development and displacement’ and Adivasi women’s marginalization and cultural silencing. The findings in the book are based on extensive field surveys in tea-gardens, stone crushing sites, brick kilns and construction industries. Further, the book provides new material on the extremist villages of Jangal Mahal, Koraput, Malkangiri and Niyamgiri Hills.
Linking tribe and gender, the author elaborates how forest economy is women’s economy; forcible eviction by multinationals for new industries has led to severe displacement and poverty, apart from the intensification of witch-hunting and trafficking of girls.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285) and index.
Acknowledgments Introduction Demystifying Adivasi Women: Some Epistemological Issues Changing Livelihood Pattern of Adivasi Women in West Bengal Adivasi Rejas in Bihar Adivasi Women and Land Rights in Jharkhand Adivasi Women and Destructive Development in Odisha Increasing Marginalizing Adivasi Women: The Process of Cultural Silencing Epilogue Bibliography Index