Coal mining and India’s tribal peoples: Inequality as the death knell of community

Mining and land dispossession produce new, profound inequalities within Adivasi communities, which erode their traditional egalitarian values

The Dangs: How a remote part of Gujarat has suffered over 200 years on forest rights

Having suffered under both, the British and post-independence governments, even the Forest Rights Act 2006 has been partially and messily …

How Adivasis of one Jharkhand village are trying to preserve ethnomedicine

With ‘civilisation’ and ‘modernity’ having made inroads into India’s tribal areas, its heritage of traditional …

The struggle to get inclusive education to south Odisha’s tribal children

Already marginalised, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on tribal groups, especially children in Koraput; but civil society is trying its best to …

Adivasis in India: Co-existence and stewardship

Much is at stake in how we define co-existence. On the one hand is a largely western legacy of wildlife conservation, while on the other hand, is …

How FRA helped India’s forest communities during COVID-19

Stories of hope have been reported from across the tribal areas of how communities survived due to FRA even as attempts have been made to dilute it