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New publication on the situation of indigenous people in India

As part of the "M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies 'Metamorphoses of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century' (ICAS:MP)", new research findings on the situation of the Adivasi have been published in open access by Sage publications India.

The interdisciplinary anthology on State, Law, and Adivasi, Shifting Terrains of Exclusion was edited by Antje Linkenbach (Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt) together with Vidhu Verma (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi). Vidhu Verma has also been a fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg in Erfurt in the past.

The anthology provides an overview of the relationship between the state, the law and the adivasis, who have undergone a profound political transformation through the privatisation of natural resources. It also discusses the role of economics and the impact of the increasing commercialisation of natural resources on the livelihoods of the Adivasis in India, who as indigenous peoples often live very close to nature.

For the Indian state, a major challenge is to create a new normative framework for indigenous autonomy based on the values of equality and sustainability. This requires the recognition of the right to self-determination and the exercise of the collective rights of the adivasis. The volume addresses concepts such as exclusion - as a useful framework for analysing the various axes of inequality affecting adivasi communities, but also the interconnections between state, development and adivasi policies in social, political and legal terms, and the interplay and deep tension between the promise of legal protection and the reality of inadequate implementation.

Antje Linkenbach and Vidhu Verma (eds.)
State, Law, and Adivasi. Shifting Terrains of Exclusion
series: Politics and Society in India and the Global South
Sage, 2022
296 pages

to open access publication: https://micasmp.hypotheses.org/pol-soc-in-india-and-the-gs

 

Background ICAS:MP

The "M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies 'Metamorphoses of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century' (ICAS:MP)" is a BMBF-funded research cooperation between German and Indian institutions. The core of ICAS:MP is an extensive fellowship programme for internationally renowned researchers and outstanding postdocs. With its cooperative, intercultural approach, ICAS:MP makes a theoretical contribution to the important debate on decolonial research approaches and also implements the demand to integrate the Global South more strongly into the cycles of knowledge production in a practical way.