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Adivasi [ˈɑːdɪˌvɑːsɪ] n (Social Science / Peoples) a member of any of the aboriginal peoples of India [Sanskrit, from adi beginning + vasi dweller] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Indeed, Manoranjan Mohanty places hope in
the people--workers, peasants, dalits, adivasis and women--to further
democratize India's polity by forcing constitutional changes. For the Adivasis, or indigenous
peoples, denied access to their forests and displaced from sites of
large dams; for the Dalits, or historically oppressed castes, who are
still held in bonded labor in parts of the country; or for rural Maoist
guerrillas who evoke loyalty and terror among the landless disaffected,
independence is still pending. This shift
is the result of an upsurge of 'new social movements' in the
last two decades, participated in by women, Dalits, Adivasis, farmers,
minorities and ethnic groups. |
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