Scheduled tribe status for adivasis in Assam

South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 290-303

  Ananthanarayanan, Sriram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; ETHNIC MINORITY; FORCED MIGRATION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LABOR MIGRATION; NATIONAL IDENTITY;

ASSAM; INDIA;

EID: 77954684903     PISSN: 00856401     EISSN: 14790270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2010.494823     Document Type: Review

References (50)

1. Harka Bahadur Chhetri, Adivasis and the Culture of Assam (Kolkata: Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2005), pp. 12-35.
2. Amit Kumar Nag, 'The Conditions of Tea Garden Labourers in North East India and its Background', in S. Karotemperel and B. Dutta Roy (eds), Tea Garden Labourers of North East India (Shillong: Vendrame Institute, 1990), pp. 51-7.
3. R. K. Kar, 'A Panoramic View of the Tea and Ex-Tea Tribes of Assam', in Thomas Pulloppillil (ed.), Identity of Adivasis in Assam (Guwahati: Don Bosco Publications, 2005), Chap. 3.
4. R. N. Chakravorty, Socio-Economic Development of Plantation Workers in North East India (Kolkata: National Library Publications, 1997); Kar, 'A Panoramic View of the Tea and Ex-Tea Tribes of Assam'; and
5. R. K. Bhadra, 'Sociological Dimensions of Tea Plantation Workers of North East India', in Thomas Pulloppillil (ed.), Identity of Adivasis in Assam (Guwahati: Don Bosco Publications, 2005), Chap. 5.
6. Kar, 'A Panoramic View of the Tea and Ex-Tea Tribes of Assam'; and
7. Bhadra, 'Sociological Dimensions of Tea Plantation Workers of North East India'.
8. Kar, 'A Panoramic View of the Tea and Ex-Tea Tribes of Assam';
9. Bhadra, 'Sociological Dimensions of Tea Plantation Workers of North East India'; and
10. Hippoletus Toppo, 'Violation of Human Rights in the Tea Plantations of Assam and West Bengal', in Thomas Pulloppillil (ed.), Identity of Adivasis in Assam (Guwahati: Don Bosco Publications, 2005), Chap. 10.
11. Gregory Horo, 'Life in the Tea Plantations and Legal Problems', in Thomas Pulloppillil (ed.), Identity of Adivasis in Assam (Guwahati: Don Bosco Publications, 2005), Chap. 9.
12. B. B. Das, 'Migration and Settlement of Tea Garden Labourers in North East India', in S. Karotemperel and B. Dutta Roy (eds), Tea Garden Labourers of North East India (Shillong: Vendrame Institute, 1990), pp. 58-62.
13. George Kandulna, 'Socio-Economic Conditions of the Adivasis in the Tea Plantations of Assam', in Thomas Pulloppillil (ed.), Identity of Adivasis in Assam (Guwahati: Don Bosco Publications, 2005), Chap.11; and
14. Kirti Mishra, 'Adivasis in Assam', in Countercurrents (internet edition) (12 Apr. 2005) [http://www.countercurrents.org, accessed 15 June 2008].
15. Ranjit Das Gupta, 'From Peasants and Tribesmen to Plantation Workers', in S. Karotemperel and B. Dutta Roy (eds), Tea Garden Labourers of North East India (Shillong: Vendrame Institute, 1990), pp. 1-34.
16. Kar, 'A Panoramic View of the Tea and Ex-Tea Tribes of Assam'; and
17. Toppo, 'Violation of Human Rights in the Tea Plantations of Assam and West Bengal'.
18. Das Gupta, 'From Peasants and Tribesmen to Plantation Workers', pp. 1-34;
19. Nag, 'The Conditions of Tea Garden Labourers in North East India and its Background'; Chakravorty, Socio-Economic Development of Plantation Workers in North East India;
20. Kandulna, 'Socio-Economic Conditions of the Adivasis in the Tea Plantations of Assam';
21. Kar, 'A Panoramic View of the Tea and Ex-Tea Tribes of Assam'; and
22. Toppo, 'Violation of Human Rights in the Tea Plantations of Assam and West Bengal'.
23. Kar, 'A Panoramic View of the Tea and Ex-Tea Tribes of Assam'; and
24. Toppo, 'Violation of Human Rights in the Tea Plantations of Assam and West Bengal'.
25. Kar, 'A Panoramic View of the Tea and Ex-Tea Tribes of Assam';
26. Toppo, 'Violation of Human Rights in the Tea Plantations of Assam and West Bengal'; and
27. Gita Bharali, Labour Unrest and Social Insecurity of Plantation Workers: A Case Study (Guwahati: North Eastern Social Research Centre, 2004).
28. Bharali, Labour Unrest and Social Insecurity of Plantation Workers: A Case Study.
29. Author's visits to tea gardens in Lower and Upper Assam in March/April 2008.
30. Mishra, 'Adivasis in Assam'; and conversations with self-help groups in Lower and Upper Assam, at Adivasi women's cooperatives in Guwahati, and with Adivasi families in Gossaigaon, March/April 2008.
31. Thomas Pulloppillil, 'Foreword and Introduction', in Thomas Pulloppillil (ed.), Identity of Adivasis in Assam (Guwahati: Don Bosco Publications, 2005), Chap. 1.
32. Conversations with AASAA members in Gossaigaon, March 2008.
33. Pranati Dutta, 'Tribal Population in India', in K. Uma Devi and Neera Bharioke (eds), Tribal Rights in India (New Delhi: Serials Publications, 2006), Chap. 8.
34. Troilukya Gogoi, Reservation Policy and the OBC Movement in Assam (Kolkata: Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2005).
35. M. S. Prabhakara, 'Behind the Adivasi Unrest in Assam', The Hindu (internet edition) (3 Dec. 2007) [http://www.hinduonnet.com, accessed 15 June 2008]; and
36. Moirangthem Prakash, 'The Adivasi Question in Assam', Tehelka (internet edition) (17 Dec. 2007) [http://www.tehelka.com, accessed 15 June 2008].
37. Harka Bahadur Chhetri, Adivasis and the Culture of Assam (Kolkata: Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2005), pp. 11-13.
38. Das, 'Migration and Settlement of Tea Garden Labourers in North East India'.
39. Prabhakara, 'Behind the Adivasi Unrest in Assam';
40. and Prakash, 'The Adivasi Question in Assam'.
41. Dutta, 'Tribal Population in India'; and
42. Rattan Singh and Mamta Mehmi, 'Constitutional Status of Scheduled Tribes in India: An Introspection', in K. Uma Devi and Neera Bharioke (eds), Tribal Rights in India (New Delhi: Serials Publications, 2006), Chap. 9.
43. Subhir Bhaumik, 'Ethnic Showdown Looms in Assam', BBC News (internet edition) (6 Dec. 2007) [http://news.bbc.co.uk/, accessed 15 June 2008];
44. Prabhakara, 'Behind the Adivasi Unrest in Assam';
45. and Prakash, 'The Adivasi Question in Assam'.
46. Robert Kerketta, 'Adivasis in Assam: Their Past, Present and Future', in Thomas Pulloppillil (ed.), Identity of Adivasis in Assam (Guwahati: Don Bosco Publications, 2005), p. 17. Within a few decades of the migration of Adivasis into the tea plantations, Assam had cornered 54 percent of the tea market in the United Kingdom and outstripped China as the leading tea-producing region in the world.
47. See Bharali, Labour Unrest and Social Insecurity of Plantation Workers: A Case Study.
48. Government of Assam, Economic Survey Assam, 2006-07. India was the world's second largest tea producer after China in 2007.
49. Conversations with Adivasi families in Gossaigaon and Guwahati, March/April 2008.
50. Francis Ekka quoted in Kerketta, 'Adivasis in Assam: Their Past, Present and Future', p. 14.