Contents List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes x Acknowledgements xiii Foreword by Alakh N. Sharma xv List of Abbreviations xviii Introduction and Overview 1 Dev Nathan and Virginias Xaxa I. PROCESSES OF EXCLUSION AND ADVERSE INCLUSION 1. Marginalization of Tribals in India 19 M. Hamid Ansari 2. Tribes and Development: Retrospect and Prospect 23 Virginius Xaxa 3. Development, Environment, and Broom Grass: 36 A Sociological Perspective A.K. Nongkynrih 4. Displacement of Tribals in Jharkhand: A Violation 52 of Human Rights Alex Ekka 5. The Eternal Colonial Legacy: Adivasis and Land 63 Assertion in Andhra Agency Bhangya Bhukya II. INTERNAL EXCLUSION 6.Development and Women: The Discourse in Nagaland 81 Rosemary Dzuvichu 7.Class Formation among the Tribals: A Case Study 94 of the Mogs of Tripura Malabika Das Gupta III. EXCLUSION OUTCOMES 8.Dying to Get Attention: A Closer Look at Child 113 Mortality among Adivasis in India Maitreyi Bordia Das, Soumya Kapoor, and Denis Nikitin 9.Thought for Food: Starvation among 145 Forest-dependent Communities Meena Radhakrishna 10. Poverty and Livelihoods in Forest-based Regions of 156 Southern Orissa: Evidence and Policy Imperatives Amita Shah 11. Declining Adivasi Knowledge Systems and Killing 188 of Linguistic Diversity Anvita Abbi IV. CLIMATE CHANGE: AN EMERGING ISSUE OF EXCLUSION? 12. On Indigenous Peoples' Future 203 Phrang Roy 13. Climate Change: Vulnerability and Women's Agency 208 in Adivasi Society Govind Kelkar 14. Agricultural Transformations in Shifting Cultivation 237 Areas of North-east India: Implications for Land Management, Gender, and Institutions Brigitte Leduc and Dhrupad Choudhury V. BEYOND EXCLUSION AND ADVERSE INCLUSION 15. Changes and Chances in a Long View: The Ho People 261 of West Singhbhum and the Challenges of Rapid Economic Growth Paul Streumer 16. Displacement and Reconstruction of Livelihoods 272 Dev Nathan 17. Calorie Deficiency among Scheduled Tribes in the 286 North-Eastern Region of India Veronica Pala and Ibalari P. Khongjoh 18. Community Representatives'Views on 310 Development Processes Dev Nathan and Virginius Xaxa 19. Development of Adivasi Communities: Lessons from 321 Projects in Asia Ganesh Thapa and Antonella Cordone Notes on Contributors334