Ritambhara Hebbar, a professor and chairperson in the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, writes regularly on tribes in India, specifically on culture, self-rule, women and land rights. Her other research areas are sociology of mobility, social institutions and change in India. Her book publications include Ecology, Equality and Freedom: Engagement with Self-Rule in Jharkhand (2011), a coedited book, Towards a New Sociology in India (2016) and a special issue in the Sociological Bulletin on Tribes in Contemporary India (2024).

• List of Figures. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. The Editor’s Introduction Dissent: Migrant Lives and Mobile Ethnographies from India - Ritambhara Hebbar I Dereliction, Disaffection and Endurance. 1. The Rabaris or the ‘Rah-bari’- (Path makers) of Kutch, Gujarat: Traversing through fenced commons - Rachanadevi Ramprakash Vaishnav 2. Dissenting Margins: Paniyan Plantation Workers in Wayanad, Kerala - Soummya Prakash 3. The Stranger and the Sage: The Shifting Discourse and Dissent among the Musahars in Bihar - Priyanandini. II Intersections, Apologues and Affirmations 4. Mumbai, Migrant and Myth Making - Sheema Fatima 5. Homelessness as Active Housing: Migrants Claiming Spaces and Identity in Mumbai - Anup Tripathi 6. COVID-19 and Mobile Lives: Critical Narratives from the Field - Sana Khan. III Mobile Lives, Sites and Inflections 7. Domicile, Migration and Identity in Jharkhand: The Politics of Belonging - Joy Prafful Lakra 8. Migration and Gender Relations in Rural Bastar - Pushpam Kumar Jha 9. Mobility, Migration, Displacement and Dissenting Identities: The Char and the Char Dwellers of Assam - Prarthana Saikia. Index.