India's Scheduled Areas: Untangling Governance, Law and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781138583726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 204 str.

Sujit Kumar; Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly

Opis

This volume explores the reasons behind the disregard for legal and institutional mechanism designed for the Scheduled Areas. It questions the role of the State in the neoliberal era on counts of fund allocation and utilization, ineffectiveness of the existing administrative structures and processes.

Spis treści

List of illustrations. Notes on contributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Glossary.
1. Introduction.
Part I: Governmentality: a neoliberal perspective on governance.
2. Manki-Munda system of West Singhbhum: historical overview of village governance and development. 3. Issues of financial governance in Scheduled Areas. 4. Role of tribal autonomous councils in economic development in the Sixth Scheduled Areas. 5. Instrumentalities of governance in a multi-ethnic nation-state: Sixth Scheduled Area governance.
Part II: Rights, legalism, and politics.
6. Mahua for Jharkhand’s Ho? An accountability analysis of minor forest product governance. 7. Politics of dispossession: land, law, and protest in Jharkhand. 8. Historical wrongs and forest rights: nascent jurisprudence on FRA and participatory evidence making. 9. Left wing extremism: re-examining challenges for development and governance in the Scheduled Areas. 10. Pathalgadi movement and conflicting ideologies of tribal village governance.
Index.