The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) removed graffiti featuring the word "Adivasi" (indigenous) from the back cover of the Grade 9 and 10 Bengali Grammar and Composition textbook last ...

The construction of the ‘adivasi’ community can be seen as a political act, which attempted to provide an alternative discourse to counter the paternalistic ideology of the State, which used the term, ...

In 2017, Korchi taluka in Gadchiroli district of Vidarbha in Maharashtra was gearing up for the Raavan dahan event on Dussehra. It was to be a regular evening with the effigy of the demon king going ...

Odisha finds itself at a remarkable point in its political journey. For the first time, a slew of Adivasi leaders from the state have occupied commanding positions in state and national politics, ...

Adiwasi leaders posing for a photo with PM Harini Amarasuriya after discussions on the parliamentary bill prepared to secure the rights of indigenous people and the rights they have demanded. Image ...

The Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while launching the electoral manifesto of the BJP in Jharkhand, said that the party would bring a law to restrict the transfer of land from Adivasis to ‘Bangladeshi ...

Like Shabari in the Ramayana – a forest-dweller who appears only fleetingly yet decisively alters the course of an epic – the role of Adivasi communities in the making of the Indian Constitution has ...

This is the 10th title in the Professor DS Achuta Rao History Series, published by Manipal Universal Press, MAHE Manipal.

Dibrugarh: Adivasi community in Assam marked the first-ever observance of the Jani Shikar festival in the state on Sunday, paying tribute to the legendary courage and leadership of adivasi women ...

Five years after the Forest Rights Act (FRA) was passed in 2006, India’s first village secured community forest rights. That village, Mendha Lekha, quickly built a thriving, resilient local economy on ...

Dibrugarh: The All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam (Aasaa) will stage a two-hour sit-in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on December 8 to draw attention to the long-standing demand for Scheduled ...