India’s Scheduled Areas

Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly was former Professor at the Centre for Rural Studies, LBSNAA, Mussorie and the Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India. She has worked as a researcher, an academician, and a development practitioner; her areas of interest include the land question, collective action for social justice, research methodology, and Gujarat. Of 14 publications, the recent ones are on protest movements in Gujarat (2015), land rights in India (2016), and on land titling. Her forthcoming publications are on the land question in neoliberal India and e-waste management in India. She has also edited and contributed to various academic journals of repute.Sujit Kumar is affiliated with St. Joseph’s College, Department of Political Science, Bengaluru, India. His areas of research interest include Adivasi politics, political economy, political thought and Indian politics. He has studied the different aspects of Adivasi society, particularly in context of land acquisition. He has published articles in journals like Studies in Indian Politics, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Economic and Political Weekly, Seminar, and Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies.

• List of illustrations. Notes on contributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Glossary.1. Introduction.Part I: Governmentality: a neoliberal perspective on governance.2. Manki-Munda system of West Singhbhum: historical overview of village governance and development. 3. Issues of financial governance in Scheduled Areas. 4. Role of tribal autonomous councils in economic development in the Sixth Scheduled Areas. 5. Instrumentalities of governance in a multi-ethnic nation-state: Sixth Scheduled Area governance.Part II: Rights, legalism, and politics.6. Mahua for Jharkhand’s Ho? An accountability analysis of minor forest product governance. 7. Politics of dispossession: land, law, and protest in Jharkhand. 8. Historical wrongs and forest rights: nascent jurisprudence on FRA and participatory evidence making. 9. Left wing extremism: re-examining challenges for development and governance in the Scheduled Areas. 10. Pathalgadi movement and conflicting ideologies of tribal village governance.Index.

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