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Jharkhand / by Alex Ekka

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Status of adivasis/indigenous peoples land series 4Publication details: New Delhi : Aakar, 2011.Description: 126pISBN:
  • 9789350021507
Uniform titles:
  • Status of adivasis/indigenous peoples land series
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.800954 ALE.J
Contents:
Eighty-eight million Adivasis and indigenous peoples live in India approximately one fourth of the world s total indigenous population. Historically self-sufficient/ forestbased communities with independent cultural identities, they have been subjected to displacement, dispossession and repression for more than a century and are now India s poorest and most marginalised communities. Since the onset of British rule, and in many cases from much earlier, Adivasis and indigenous peoples have been systematically and forcibly dispossessed of the resources of their homelands.
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Eighty-eight million Adivasis and indigenous peoples live in India approximately one fourth of the world s total indigenous population. Historically self-sufficient/ forestbased communities with independent cultural identities, they have been subjected to displacement, dispossession and repression for more than a century and are now India s poorest and most marginalised communities. Since the onset of British rule, and in many cases from much earlier, Adivasis and indigenous peoples have been systematically and forcibly dispossessed of the resources of their homelands.

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