India's scheduled areas : untangling governance, law and politics / edited by Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly and Sujit Kumar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ganguly, Varsha, editor.

Kumar, Sujit, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitution (India).

Scheduled tribes in India.

Government policy.

Politics and government.

India--Scheduled tribes--Politics and government.

India.

India--Scheduled tribes--Government policy.

Neoliberalism.

Scheduled tribes in India--Legal status, laws, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This volume explores the complexities of governance, law, and politics in India's Scheduled Areas. The Scheduled Areas (SAs) are those parts of the country which have been identified by the Fifth and Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India and are inhabited predominantly by tribal communities or Scheduled Tribes. SAs are often identified by their geographical isolation, primitive economies, and relatively egalitarian and closely knit society. Irrespective of the constitutional provision for governance and a mandate of devolution of power in terms of funds, functions and functionaries, the backwardness of these areas have remained a challenge. This volume attempts to explore the reasons behind the disregard for legal and institutional mechanism designed for the SAs. It examines the role of the state in the neoliberal era on fund allocation and utilisation, the governance of land and forest resources, and the ineffectiveness of the existing administrative structures and processes. It also looks into the interpretations of law by the judiciary while dealing with community rights vis-à-vis the state's prerogative of bringing development to the regions, and how development concerns are addressed in the name of 'good governance' by various stakeholders. Comprehensive and topical, this volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of political studies, development studies, developmental economics, sociology and social anthropology, and for policy makers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly and Sujit Kumar

Munki-Munda system of west Singbhum : historical overview of village governance and development / Asoka Kumar Sen

Issues of financial governance in Scheduled Areas / Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly and Bhanu Shree Jain

Role of tribal autonomous council in economic development in the Sixth Scheduled Areas / Sumarbin Umdor

Instrumentalities of governance in a multi-ethnic nation-state : Sixth Schedule Area governance / Chandra Bhushan Kumar and Sonali Ghosh

Mahua for Jharkhand's Ho? : an accountability analysis of minor forest product governance / Siddharth Sareen and Emma Jane Lord

Politics of dispossession : land, law and protest in Jharkhand / Sujit Kumar

Historical wrongs and forest rights : nascent jurisprudence on FRA and participatory evidence-making / Shomona Khanna

Left wing extremism : re-examining challenges for development and governance in the Scheduled Areas / Richard Hemraj Toppo

Pathalgadi movement and conflicting ideologies of tribal village governance / Anjana Singh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: India's scheduled areas

ISBN:

9781138583726

1138583723

OCLC:

1121193624