Uttarakhand Assembly Elections 2022: What role will caste play in the hills

Why are Dalits not as assertive in Uttarakhand as in Uttar Pradesh despite forming 19% of the population

Andhra Pradesh extends support to SC women farmers for natural farming push

The government will use its extensive network of women’s self-help groups to encourage the transition.  

West Bengal polls: What’s in it for Adivasis and forest dwellers?

For political parties, tribal votes matter more than including tribal concerns in their political agenda.  

Use revenue-sharing model for development, land acquisition

Access to village commons improved livelihoods but some recent state policies seek to grab them

Early breastfeeding practices in India: Backwardness cuts through social spectrum

Children born in Goa (75.4 per cent) had the highest rate of early breastfeeding in the country, followed by Sikkim (69.7 per cent) and Odisha (68.…

Tribal families that fled Baster during Salwa Judum years return

24 families return to their roots after spending 13 years in Andhra as agricultural labourers

Forest dwellers’ rights: Conservationists started it, SC stayed it

Read this to abreast yourself with the whole issue of Forest Rights Act and tribals’ rights that has made its way to the Supreme Court

Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands

People from the scheduled caste have once protested against big landlords who have taken control of fertile common lands and they are all set to …

Righting old wrongs

On the third Sampurna Vimukti Diwas, to mark Mahasweta Devi's birth anniversary, we reproduce this blog on Constitutional protection to Nomadic, …

Newly amended SC/ST Prevention of Atrocity Act fails to bring justice to land grab victims in Chhattisgarh

8 months after 4 Gharghora villages filed complaints against TRN Energy and Mahaveer Energy for wrongfully grabbing their land, the police …

‘Independent India worse for tribals’

Widely respected in the civil society, B D Sharma spent his life fighting for the rights of tribals for about four decades. Excerpts from a …

A look at the changing scenario of Bihar politics

Of late, women have become the it factor in elections. Caste also plays a dominant role in voter polarisation

Child sex ratio worsening faster among STs: census report

Data also shows higher marginationalisation of the country's Scheduled Tribes

Inheritance of loss

Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor

The deprived lot

Andhra Pradesh fails to allocate funds stipulated for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, says Cabinet panel

The poorest shun MGNREGA

Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Annihilation of caste and copyright claims

Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum

Dalit-adivasi agenda for inclusion of SC, ST rights in election manifestos

Kerala launches an on-line campaign on dalit and adivasi concerns

Can faith heal?

Billed as the largest gathering of humanity in recorded history, Maha Kumbh has commenced in Allahabad. Over the next few weeks, pilgrims will …

Union Budget 2015-16 reduces funds for SCs and STs

Allocations made in budget 2015-216 way short of Plan Outlays for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

Grants unutilised

From the blurbs

Life beyond the pale

POISONED BREAD Edited by Arjun Dangle Publisher: Orient Longman, Delhi Price: Rs 165

Local politics

Book>>Inclusion and Exclusion in Local Self Governance edited by B S Baviskar and George Mathew Sage Publications, Delhi 2009 Rs 750