Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence: Tribal Tenacity in the Twenty-first Century in Central Eastern India [Paperback]

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Introduction

1. Fight for Human Rights: Tribal Movements in Jharkhand

2. Fight against the Mugging of the Multinationals and National Corporates: Tribal Movements

in Odisha

3. Fighting the Structural Violence: Tribal Movements in Madhya Pradesh

4. Fight inside the Red Corridor: Tribal Movements in Chhattisgarh

This book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context  induced displacement and dispossession of livelihood.

Debasree De is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Maharaja Sris Chandra College, Kolkata, West Bengal. She has done her Ph.D. and Post Doctorate from Jadavpur University. Her publications include, A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India, Gandhi and Adivasis; article in Economic & Political Weekly, South Asia Research, Community Development Journal, and others.

This book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context, due to which the tribes are going through massive upheaval  induced displacement and dispossession from livelihood. They are unable to advance their existentialist interests and fulfil their aspirations, because of which they are taking recourse to extremism and get caught into the battle of state sponsored militia and forces on the one hand, and the extremlƒ?