Being Adivasi: Existence, Entitlements, Exclusion, edited by Abhay Xaxa and Ganesh Devy, contains 11 essays on various themes ranging from constitutional and legal measures from “the Adivasi question” ...

Leading Adivasi organizations like the All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam (Aasaa) and the Adivasi National Conference (ANC) on Saturday accused the state government of allegedly forcing five ...

RANCHI: In a significant ruling, the Jharkhand High Court observed that the term ‘Adivasi’ is not a caste and quashed an FIR lodged under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against a government ...

NCST chairman Harsh Chouhan has said the Constitution refers to tribal people as Scheduled Tribes and any debate over using the words 'adivasi' and 'vanvasi' for the community is meaningless.

Bitiya Murmu’s father died around 1980, when she was just a year-and-a-half old. As the family members grieved their loss, they did not realise that for the next two decades, their lives would be ...

ADILABAD: A large number of Adivasi women under the banner of the Thudum Debba on Monday staged a dharna in front of the collectorate demanding action against the three accused involved in the gang ...

Adilabad: Twenty-three Adivasi women were summoned to the Indhanpalli forest range office in Jannaram forest division and asked to pay Rs 5,000 each for allegedly fishing in the Kawal tiger reserve ...

As G.N. Devy, the editor of Being Adivasi with the late Abhay Xaxa, shares in his introduction: ‘I would like to hope that it is received not just as a publication or academic exercise but as a ...

Mgr Edwin Colaço Bishop of Amravati, speaks out against the death threats and actions of Hindu fundamentalists. Amravati (AsiaNews) Rajura, the only Catholic village in Amravati, one of the six ...