Tribal Rights in India

Contents Preface. Editorial note. 1. Social and cultural rights of tribals a myth or reality/Harpreet Kaur and A.K. Kapoor. 2. Human rights issues and tribal life impact of deforestation and displacement on tribals in South Rajasthan/P.C. Sikligar. 3. Pastoralists rights and natural resource management review and evidence/Falendra K. Sudan. 4. Legal issues of tribal land alienation in Andhra Pradesh some remedial measures/T. Prabhakar Reddy and V. Ramesh. 5. Public health care system and tribal rights in the scheduled areas of Orissa an empirical study/Nilakantha Panigrahi. 6. Tribal development policy in Manipur relevance and implications/M. Romesh Singh. 7. Cultural changes resulting from resettlement and their implications the case of Jenukurubas at Nagapura/Suresh B.R. 8. The human rights and the Aborigines the problem of future survival/V.L.N. Dash and T.S. Naidu. 9. Tribal rights and justice a study in Lahoul Spiti Himachal Pradesh/Shilpy Gupta Ankita Arya and A.K. Kapoor. 10. Tribal population in India/Pranati Datta. 11. Constitutional status of Scheduled Tribes in India an introspection/Rattan Singh and Mamta Mehmi. 12. Public policies and legislations on land and forest rights of tribals in Orissa/Gandham Bulliyya. 13. The so called development displacement and dispossession an analysis on land and forest rights of the project affected tribal people/Nibedita Nath and Deepak Kumar Behera. 14. Impact of displacement on the formal and informal life of tribals with special reference to residence land and forest rights/Prabudha S. Kamble and D. Murahari Naik. 15. The status of tribal children in India policies and programmes/Rachna Arora and Mamta Mehmi. The articles contributed by authors to this issue provide a panoramic view of the various provisions in national legislations as well as of the multilateral conventions and treaties tracing them from their evolutionary stage. The articles also highlight the limitations and atrocities caused to economic social and cultural rights of tribal people including tribal children of India. The stark and gross violation of not only human rights but also their rights to be human is demonstrated by the empirical study of the tribal people in various districts in India. The tribal people have been deprived displaced and dispossessed of their cultural and traditional rights too under the grab of development of the districts inhabited by them. 292 pp. …