History of Adivasi women in post independence eastern India the margins of the marginals
By: Debasree, De.
Publisher: New Delhi Sage Publications 2018Description: 293p.ISBN: 9789381345382.Subject(s): Social conditions -- Women, Adivasi -- Marginality, Social -- IndiaDDC classification: 305.40954 Summary: A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India is a path-breaking book that explores the current status of adivasi women in the four states of eastern India with high percentages of adivasis—Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. Debasree De engages with the recent paradigm of ‘development and displacement’ and adivasi women’s marginalization and cultural silencing. The findings in the book are based on extensive field surveys in teagardens, stone crushing sites, brick kilns and construction industries. Further, the book provides new material on the extremist villages of Jangal Mahal, Koraput, Malkangiri and Niyamgiri Hills. Linking tribe and gender, the author elaborates how forest economy is women’s economy; forcible eviction by multinationals for new industries has led to severe displacement and poverty, apart from intensification of witch hunting and trafficking of girls.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 305.40954 BRE- SL1 Breaking out of invisibility: women in Indian history | 305.40954 CHA-; Gender in South Asia: social imagination and constructed realities | 305.40954 CON- Contemporary Indian Society | 305.40954 DEB History of Adivasi women in post independence eastern India | 305.40954 GEN- Gender and discrimination | 305.40954 GEN- Gender, Unpaid Work and Care in India / | 305.40954 GEN- SL1 Gender and caste |
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A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India is a path-breaking book that explores the current status of adivasi women in the four states of eastern India with high percentages of adivasis—Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. Debasree De engages with the recent paradigm of ‘development and displacement’ and adivasi women’s marginalization and cultural silencing. The findings in the book are based on extensive field surveys in teagardens, stone crushing sites, brick kilns and construction industries. Further, the book provides new material on the extremist villages of Jangal Mahal, Koraput, Malkangiri and Niyamgiri Hills. Linking tribe and gender, the author elaborates how forest economy is women’s economy; forcible eviction by multinationals for new industries has led to severe displacement and poverty, apart from intensification of witch hunting and trafficking of girls.
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