"This book is about the lives of the adivasis, also known as tribals, and the circumstances in which they find themselves, in one district, Thane, in Maharashtra, Western India. Thane district has a large adivasi population, the second largest adivasi population of the thirty districts of Maharashtra, 18 percent of the population of the district and about 13 percent of the total adivasi population of the state. The book is divided into two parts. The impact of the broad social-historical processes which basically ...
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"This book is about the lives of the adivasis, also known as tribals, and the circumstances in which they find themselves, in one district, Thane, in Maharashtra, Western India. Thane district has a large adivasi population, the second largest adivasi population of the thirty districts of Maharashtra, 18 percent of the population of the district and about 13 percent of the total adivasi population of the state. The book is divided into two parts. The impact of the broad social-historical processes which basically transformed the economic and social organisation of the adivasis and shaped the trajectory of their collective life, and their response and resistance to them, constitute the context which is discussed in the first part of the book. The second part of the book consists of six life stories of adivasi men and women, belonging to different age groups, even generations, as narrated by them. These stories help to see how the macro historical processes impinge upon individual lives,
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