Activists favour grant of Scheduled Tribe status to Siddis across Karnataka

The state has the largest concentration of the Afro-Indian community but ST status is granted to them in only 1 district

Do we need to ‘save’ the Sentinelese?

The Sentinelese and other tribes of the Andamans are minuscule in number. Will they die out or survive?

Kerala’s Kadars continue fight for assertion of their community forest rights

Their Gram Sabhas have passed resolutions under the Forest Rights Act as work has progressed on the Anakkayam Small Hydro Power Project

Chhattisgarh govt begins process to grant FRA to Abujmarh tribals

Government to grant habitat rights to Abujh Marias, a particularly vulnerable tribal group that reside in the forest, considered a bastion of Naxalism

Gram Sabha level committees formed in Chhattisgarh’s Abujmarh

The move is the start of the process to grant habitat rights under the Forest Rights Act to the Abujh Mariyas

The Island of Turtles

BJP leader Tarun Vijay recently tweeted that Havelock Island in the Andaman Archipelago should be renamed as “Rani Lakshmibai Island”.…

We break indigenous societies and yet are scared of ‘them’

Two tribal rights activists urge civil society to protect indigenous families facing the onslaught of inhuman greed and extreme apathy

The Simlipal quandary: Tribals or tigers, who should take precedence?

After fire sweeps through village of tribespeople relocated for wildlife’s sake, questions are being asked

Tribal rights in India are a grey picture: experts

In the light of the recent murder of a US national in the Andamans by an isolated tribe, experts say the rights of indigenous communities in …

As told to Parliament (March 18, 2021): India has 75 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Vulnerable tribal group’s only candidate contesting Jharkhand election to make villagers aware

Two other candidates from the group contested elections from Bishunpur seat in 2005 and 2009; both lost

Jharkhand gets first non-tribal chief minister

Tribal people protest swearing in of non-tribal chief minister; Raghubar Das announces sops for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups

Telangana fallout: Scrap Polavaram, demand project-affected tribals

They oppose national status to the project under Telangana bill. Polavaram will benefit only Seemandhra and displace about 200,000 people, all in …

Remaining tribals in Simlipal tiger reserve to be displaced

Those shifted out last December are living under plastic sheets in searing heat. Is this how relocation is meant to be carried out?

Anganwadis in Attappady fail to deliver

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General points to neglect by state