Minority Rights

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The Internationalisation of Caste

15.06.2023

Swati Singh Parmar

A bottomless social stratification of inequality exists in the form of caste in Indian society. Caste transposes economic, cultural, political, and educational marginalisation. The egregious forms of discrimination that the...

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• Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

India Trains Its Sights on Dissent in Chhattisgarh

28.10.2022

Allison West

Development in the form of profit-driven resource exploitation ventures in India’s central state of Chhattisgarh, led by corporations and facilitated by the state, have wreaked havoc on the lives and...

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• Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

The State vs. Adivasis

27.10.2022

Nikita Agarwal

The Bastar region in southern Chhattisgarh has been the site of an ongoing armed conflict over the last decades. The armed struggle in the region arose due to the lack...

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• Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

Punished for Seeking Justice

26.10.2022

Gautam Bhatia

In 2009, Himanshu Kumar, a social activist, filed a petition with the Supreme Court of India against the state of Chhattisgarh. The case concerned the massacre of 16 indigenous people...

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• Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

Tigers over Tribal Rights

25.10.2022

Alev Erhan

Indigenous communities around the world who have relied on and considered themselves custodians of the land have long confronted existential challenges in the face of privatization, extraction, and development. Often...

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Economic Growth or Adivasi Rights?

24.10.2022

Tara Roy

“We exist because the forest does, and the forest exists because we do.” - Member of the Gond Adivasi people in Hasdeo Aranya   That the world is facing an...

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• Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

Landgrabs, Institutional Violence and Shrinking Civic Space

24.10.2022

Alev Erhan Allison West Spyridoula Katsoni Meike Krakau

India is often referred to as the “world’s largest democracy,” yet minority protection has always been a field of fierce contestation in post-independence India. Adivasis (the indigenous peoples of India)...

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