Adivasi Sengel Abhiyan, a tribal organisation having a presence in Jharkhand, Odisha, Bengal, Bihar and Assam, has threatened a rail blockade on November 30 to mount pressure on the Centre to include ...

Five tribal organisations in Malda teamed up to raise community-specific issues on Tuesday, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This first-of-its kind Adivasi Ekta Huls...

In September 2019, a research article crucially important for South Asia was published in Science under the title, “The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia” (Science, ...

Hardik Patel, who was sulking for the past two years, finally quit the Congress after accusing the party of obstructing development and unnecessarily attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a subtle...

Kuruganti was part of a “fact-finding” team that visited five panchayats in Jharkhand’s Khunti and East Singhbhum districts where they met public distribution system beneficiaries, d...

It is well known that the politics of adivasi identity has emerged as an important political force since the colonial period. Its political actions have focused on claims on ancestral territory, terri...

The year in which India became a Republic — 1950 — was the year of my birth, a coincidence willed neither by the Republic nor me. The small town — more a village than a town — ...

Rahul Gandhi will flag off Adivasi Satyagraha yatra in Gujarat on Tuesday as part of the Congress attempts to consolidate its position in the tribal areas ahead of the December Assembly election in th...

Tribals from across the country would converge again at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on April 25 to press for a separate religion code for tribals in the next census. Addressing the media after a meeting o...

The Congress has decided to continue the Adivasi Satyagraha in Gujarat in protest against the Narendra Modi government’s Par Tapi Narmada river-linking project, arguing that the promise to put i...