Five years after the Forest Rights Act (FRA) was passed in 2006, India’s first village secured community forest rights. That village, Mendha Lekha, quickly built a thriving, resilient local economy on ...
Despite a population of 22 lakh Adivasis in Bihar, mainstream parties have fielded very few tribal candidates, focusing largely on just two reserved seats and sidelining communities even in ...
Growing up as an Adivasi woman in a mixed-caste Hindu community in Jharkhand, I was always aware of the triple jeopardy I faced. First, as a woman in general, second as an Adivasi in a caste structure ...
n The Chhattisgarh State Medicinal Plant Board has been renamed as the ‘Chhattisgarh Adivasi Sthaniya Swasthya Parampara Avam Aushadhi Padap Board’ (Chhattisgarh Tribal Local Health Tradition and ...