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	Adivasi-Tee-Projekt - ASHWINI (Association for Health Welfare in the Nilgiris)
		Our nurses are all adivasi and so people are able to speak in their own languages.
		Not many adivasis are seen at the OP since most of them are first seen at the sub centre and are usually referred to the hospital.
		The increasing number of mental illness among adivasis are attributed to the change in their life style forced by the alienation of their forest land and to the market driven economy.
	www.adivasi-tee-projekt.org /ashwini.htm (3549 words)

	The Hindu : The Adivasi question — II
		The distinguishing feature of most Adivasi peasants is that they hold land of very poor quality, which forces them to work additionally as agricultural labourers to feed their families.
		These Adivasi farmers are subject to myriad forms of exploitation by the highly interlocked non-Adivasi axis of power that dominates the land, land-lease, labour, credit and input markets.
		This is the Adivasi predicament — shorn of their traditional resource base, violently integrated into the national mainstream, they are subject to an inextricable nexus of exploitation.
	www.hindu.com /2002/04/03/stories/2002040300291000.htm (1233 words)

	<< Betrayed In God’s Country:adivasi uprising >>
		The adivasis, who had been squatting on the land for six weeks as part of a land redistribution campaign, alleged that the group was setting fire to the forests in order to pin arson charges on them as a pretext for eviction.
		The state’s rejection of adivasi land claims, its obstruction of court-mandated rectification schemes, and its outright appropriation of existing adivasi lands, have occurred primarily beyond the scope of law.
		According to adivasi leaders, the movement was both an attempt to redress the wrongs and an act of protest against the state’s failure to live up to commitments made more than a year earlier.
	www.countercurrents.org /adi-bijoy.htm (2851 words)

	Topics in Indian History: History of India's Adivasis, Tribal Republics, Buddhism
		Adivasi traditions and practices pervade all aspects of Indian culture and civilization, yet this awareness is often lacking in popular consciousness, and the extent and import of Adivasi contributions to Indian philosophy, language and custom have often gone unrecognized, or been underrated by historians and social scientists.
		Adivasi society was built on a foundation of equality with respect for all life forms including plants and trees.
		However, it is imperative that all Adivasi districts receive special attention from the Central government in terms of investment in schools, research institutes, participatory forest management and preservation schemes, non-polluting industries, and opportunities for the Adivasi communities to document and preserve their rich heritage.
	members.tripod.com /~INDIA_RESOURCE/adivasi.html (2422 words)

	The Hindu : The Adivasi question — I
		A unique feature of the geographical distribution of Adivasis in India is the simultaneous occurrence of high density and their existence as a numerical minority of the region's population.
		Adivasis are the aboriginal inhabitants of India, driven over centuries, further and further away from the alluvial plains and fertile river basins into what have been described as the "refuge zones" — hills, forests, arid and semi-arid tracts — in successive waves, by communities armed with superior military technology.
		The Adivasi predicament must be seen as an intrinsic consequence of an over-centralised, non-location-specific, trickle-down development paradigm, which also posits a fundamental conflict between development and regeneration of the environment within which it occurs.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2002/04/02/stories/2002040200591000.htm (1093 words)

	The Adivasis of India - A History of Discrimination, Conflict, and Resistance
		Adivasis belong to their territories, which are the essence of their existence; the abode of the spirits and their dead and the source of their science, technology, way of life, their religion and culture.
		The absence of neat classifications of Adivasis as a homogenous social-cultural category and the intensely fluid nature of non-Adivasis are evident in the insuperable difficulty in arriving at a clear anthropological definition of a tribal in India, be it in terms of ethnicity, race, language, social forms or modes of livelihood.
		The Adivasi territories have been divided amongst the states formed on the basis of primarily the languages of the mainstream caste society, ignoring the validity of applying the same principle of language for the Adivasis in the formation of states.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Dalit-tribal/2003/adivasi.htm (4691 words)

	The South Indian Adivasi Experience
		The adivasis called for a general strike in Nagarhole on December 29, 1996 and it turned out to be a total success.
		Despite the fact that the adivasis did not do anything that could be construed as criminal or destructive of the ecosystem, the State Chief Minister Antony and the Forest Minister Sudhakaran propagated that the occupation in Muthanga was an "armed struggle waged against the State".
		The assault on innocent adivasis was completed by the armed forces, by marching on to the hamlets and booking hundreds of innocent adivasis and throwing them into jails several weeks.
	www.countercurrents.org /dalit-janu061003.htm (2837 words)

	Welcome to NESA - Adivasi
		Adivasis are the ancient indigenous people with a distinct identity and a culture that has territorial identification.
		The major issues relating to Adivasis stems from the fact that the Government refuses to acknowledge that they are indigenous people with a symbiotic relationship with nature.
		Around 175 Adivasis contested the local elections to the panchayat in Tamil Nadu; and 110 all of whom were trained by NESA- were elected.
	www.nesauniverse.org /focusarea/adivasif (303 words)

	The Adivasi struggle
		In the majority of cases, the ignorance and innocence of the Adivasis were used to the hilt by the non-tribal settler "farmers".
		The rules made all transfer of property "possessed, enjoyed or owned" by Adivasis to non-tribal people between January 1, 1960 and January 1, 1982 "invalid" and directed that the "possession or enjoyment" of property so transferred be restored to the Adivasis concerned.
		The agitation in front of the State Assembly, with the Adivasis, led by their leader from Wayanad C.K. Janu, trying to enter the State legislature, supported by a group of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) volunteers, was perhaps an early indication of the gradual transformation of the agitation.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1821/18210490.htm (2486 words)

	INDIA: Hindu festival poses threat to adivasi identity, culture and religion; violence feared
		Adivasis who have converted to Christianity—approximately 5 percent of the population in the Dangs—are particularly afraid.
		In 1998, there were 38 attacks directed at Christian adivasis in a three-week period in the Dangs, especially at their churches with 29 churches set on fire by Hindu fundamentalists.
		Much of the Hindu agitation in the Dangs is traced by local adivasis to the arrival in the district in 1997 of Swami Asimanand from West Bengal, a member of the fundamentalist group Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP).
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2006/1516 (1739 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Who are we?
		Adivasi’s have been traditionally treated as outside the caste structure and are seen as entirely impure from within the Brahminic caste order.
		Adivasi societies, in turn, consider themselves distinct from the majority Hindu population of India, as well as from most other organized forms of religion.
		The reason why the Sangh denies Adivasis the status of the original dwellers is that it runs counter to its own claim that the Aryans, who brought Vedic civilization to the country, are the original inhabitants of the land.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /112002/Report/appendixf.html (2232 words)

	Adivasi Community in South India: Historically Marginalised and Forgotten by L.A.Samy / Global Eyes / In Motion Magazine
		It is to be noted with deep concern that as many as 4.65 lakh (465,000) cases were registered by January 1999 on alienation of 9.17 lakh (917,000) acres of tribal land.
		Sensitive engagement of Adivasi communities for enforcement and effective monitoring of the policy should be evolved in a meaningful participatory way.
		The Adivasi communities’ rights to preserve and uphold their customary laws and practices should be recognised in the draft policy and adequate provisions should be incorporated to operationalise these concerns in the policy.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /global/lasamy_adivasi.html (1303 words)

	Keywords » Adivasi Rebels
		When we were in India Adivasis activists told us that the state was trying to paint all activists as Maoists (even in areas far removed from Maoist activities) in order to justify using violent means to suppress their movement.
		Another adivasi rebel, Neela, said she was radicalized at the age of 12, when police arrested her father for illegally clearing a small patch of land and imprisoned him for three years.
		The Adivasis are the pawns of both the parties of the conflict.
	keywords.oxus.net /archives/2006/05/13/adivasi-rebels (1547 words)

	Jan Sangarsh Morcha PRESS RELEASE: 23 September
		In fact, it was the the Sub- Divisional Magistrate Shri Tikam himself who presided over the arrest of 22 adivasi men and 7 adivasi women at midnight on the 19th of September 2003, and thus aided the related contractors and small time local Congress leaders of the area who have economic interest in the mines.
		Hundreds of adivasis from villages all over the area are sitting in peaceful dharna at Limbi since the 20th of September to protest the illegal arrests and asking for a stop to the illegal mining and the violation of the PESA rules regarding their rights in the Gram Sabha.
		The six adivasi women from Village Limbi and Madhuri are lodged in the women 's jail at District Khargone while the 22 adivasi men are in Badwani jail.
	www.narmada.org /nba-press-releases/september-2003/adivasis.html (997 words)

	Promise of land
		The Adivasi "refugee camps" erected by the agitating tribal people outside the State Secretariat and the Chief Minister's official residence in Thiru-vananthapuram and in the district headquarters were dismantled soon afterwards.
		Perhaps the most important fallout of the latest agitation is that both the government and the Action Council leaders have succeeded in shifting the focus of the nearly 50-year-old tribal struggle in Kerala from the issue of "restoration of alienated land" to one of "land for the landless tribal people".
		In short, whether Adivasis are any better off as a result of the agitation will be known only in January 2002, when the government, as per its promise, has to start distributing the land.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1822/18220420.htm (645 words)

	Project: ADIVASI FOREST PRODUCE PROGRAMME
		It is realising that tribal communities (adivasis), who have lived in harmony with the forest for generations, are the best people to ensure that it is sustainably managed and protected.
		The Adivasi Forest Produce Programme is an innovative project which proposes total adivasi control over collection and marketing of forest produce within a large area of protected forest in Tamil Nadu.
		The project will provide adivasis living in extreme poverty with the means to increase their income substantially and permanently.
	www.odi.org.uk /tropics/projects/3282.htm (356 words)

	“I am that woman!"
		Brigitte Schulze is a social activist and a sociologist of culture who tries to make her university teaching and research a more ‘humane’ space by instilling into it good doses of the life experiences of marginalised women and men.
		It is particularly the stand taken by C.K. Janu, an energetic woman of Kerala's ‘first humans' (the literal meaning of adivasi), who is one of the main forces behind the recent uprising of adivasis struggling for their own lands and self-rule, which are worthy of note to international feminism.
		For the first time in Kerala's long history of violence against adivasis and their original habitat, the forest, which was their ‘mother' who nourished adivasi cultural identity and livelihood, an adivasi woman rises her voice, moves ahead of an adivasi resistance which cannot be brushed aside easily.
	www.montrealserai.com /2004_Volume_17/17_3/Article_5.htm (1566 words)

	Opposition walks out over adivasi deaths
		Thiruvananthapuram: The Opposition staged a walkout in the State Assembly today to express its protest over the Government's "insensitiveness" to the plight of the adivasi communoities, whose settlements are reportedly in the grip of starvation.
		Kuttappan said that, in the month of June, the people in the Adivasi settlement were given rice and pulses.
		Kuttappan admitted that several kinds of diseases were stalking the adivasi settlements.
	www.ambedkar.org /News/Oppwalksout.htm (610 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 643 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Indigenous (Adivasi) people still hold on to their cultural heritage though they are the most vulnerable and marginal ones due to ethnic discrimination and exploitation, speakers said.
		During the Liberation War the Adivasis sacrificed their lives for independence but they are now living as aliens in their own country.
		With the participation of a number of Adivasi artistes and traditional indigenous cultural programmes were performed at the festival, which will remain open from 5:00pm to 7:30 pm everyday.
	www.thedailystar.net /2006/03/20/d60320060262.htm (327 words)

	Adivasi archive at Blogbharti
		Published by bhupinder October 8th, 2007 in Adivasi, Poetry, Activism, Language and Politics.
		What this translated for the adivasis was that most of the population was displaced from the forests without adequate thought given to their rehabilitation.
		In the series of Panchayats started last year, an Adivasi Panchayat was held today in the state of Bhopal for tribal’s of Madhya Pradesh.
	www.blogbharti.com /category/adivasi (1640 words)

	Fellow Traveller
		Adivasi displaced by the West Bokaro open cast coal mine near Hazaribagh, Bihar.
		Many Adivasi families displaced by the Bargi dam on the Narmada River have disappeared into city slums.
		According to the NBA the 40 000 real Adivasi who live within the sanctuary's boundaries are being "persuaded" to leave.
	www.fellowtraveller.org /here/india/adivasi/t3_adi.htm (442 words)

	Adivasi children and education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mesbah Kamal further said that 94% adivasi people speak in their mother tongue at home, and the tests conducted by the research team of RDC have found that those adivasi children who can learn in their mother tongue do better than those who are to learn in Bangla, the state language of the country.
		He said that in the regions where adivasi villages and Bengali villages are in a ratio of 4 to 1, government primary schools are biased into being set up in the Bengali villages, thus putting the more numerous adivasi children at a disadvantage.
		Then the adivasi children have to study Bangla in school, a foreign language to them, due to an absence of primary school teachers from their own community.
	www.dhakacourier.net /issue06/other/doc2.htm (774 words)

	Jharkhand Adivasi and Moolvasi on a warpath
		A typical reaction from the non-Jharkhandi urban, middle class about the militant activism of the Adivasi/ Moolvasi Parties, Organisations and Movements during the past year, is one of disapproval and anger.
		The adivasi and moolvasi people of Jharkhand have over the past five decades of independence been reduced to a situation of helplessness and silence.
		The crude exploitation by the banias and sahukars of the simple adivasi and especially of the adivasi women in the village-bazaars is to be condemned.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Dalit-tribal/2004/adivasi-jharkhand.htm (907 words)

	INDIA: Assault of adivasi (tribal) person and general denial of rights to adivasi community by the upper caste of ...
		This action has denied the adivasis the use of this common land and poses a considerable nuisance to their lives.
		Ramjibhai Vasava, a representative of the adivasis in the village, made a police complaint at Kosamba police station with regard to the encroachment.
		The adivasi villagers maintain that the police have taken no action in relation to this matter because of the general treatment and attitudes towards adivasis across India.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2005/1017 (1568 words)

	Montreal Mirror - The Front Page : Development
		The sign is a clear indicator of the relationship between the Adivasi tribal people and the state police after what happened here on December 16, 2000.
		Activists and Adivasi had gathered, as they had many times since 1993, to plan their strategy of resistance to the government takeover of their agricultural lands for mining purposes.
		And once the government approved the privatization plans, it eschewed its responsibility to the Adivasis and is now in the process of dissolving the constitutional protections that ensure Adivasi control of their own land.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2003/112003/news2.html (1243 words)

	K A T H A . O R G
		Dalit and Adivasi literatures, rich treasure houses of knowledge and a kind of knowing that is a quintessential part of our culture, have not been seen, read or celebrated as much as they should be.
		KADAL attempts to be a meeting place for scholars and researchers, writers, translators who are involved in the study of Adivasi and Dalit literature in their sociological framework.
		In seeking to translate Adivasi and Dalit oral traditions and regional literature, Katha hopes to have the participation of Adivasi and Dalit people, in this process of compilation, documentation of the literary and visual cultures from India.
	www.katha.org /CommunityMatters/kadal.htm (1132 words)

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