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Between History and Politics: Lambadas and the Struggle for Scheduled Tribe Recognition

Rathod Raghuvardhan Broadly classifying the tribal communities based on lifestyle patterns, there are four major kinds of tribes in India: nomadic, semi-nomadic, settled, and Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs). Here arises an important question: what makes a community a tribe? How can we classify a community as a tribe? This remains one of the most …

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Historian of the Lions

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Karthik Navayan ‘Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter’ an African saying tells you. This is the age when indigenous tribes and castes are rewriting their histories. This is the age when new historians, digging deep into the raging conflagrations of untouchability and humiliations of their pasts, are …