This volume presents an overview of the relationship between the state, law, and Adivasis that have experienced a profound political shift due to privatization of natural resources. It discusses the role of the corporates and its impact on livelihoods of the Adivasis in India.

For the Indian state, a significant challenge is to establish a new normative framework for indigenous autonomy based on the values of equality and sustainability. This calls for recognition of the right to self-determination and exercise of collective rights of the Adivasis.


The chapters in this volume examine:


* 'Exclusion' as a useful framework for analyzing the various axes of inequality that affect the Adivasi communities

* How state, development, and Adivasi politics play out in entangled ways in the social, political and legal domains

* The interplay of and the deep tension between the promise of legal protection and the realities of inadequate implementation.