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Jharkhand Govt training Adivasis to fight/kill Adivasis: a Note of Resistance

Jharkhand Govt training Adivasis to fight/kill Adivasis: a Note of Resistance

First published: Jul 14, 2014

India Restists / By Stan Swamy

“Tribals to be trained in guerrilla warfare to fight Maoists in state” (Hindustan Times, Ranchi edition, 30-6-2014). The newspaper report goes on to spell out govt’s plan. Two special battalions comprising of youths from the primitive tribal groups in the state will be recruited and trained in advanced guerrilla warfare to fight the Maoists in the forests.
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A study of Undertrials in Jharkhand

A study of Undertrials in Jharkhand

First published: Feb 2, 2016

Sanhati / By Bagaicha Research Team

This is a research study undertaken to document and highlight the problems of impoverished Adivasis and Moolvasis of Jharkhand, who are being accused as Maoists. Maoists are simplistically referred to as Naxalites in the commercial media.
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Bombay High Court’s ‘Dalit’ Ruling as come in handy for the politics of Hindutva

Bombay High Court’s ‘Dalit’ Ruling as come in handy for the politics of Hindutva

Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde

It also reflects the community’s loss of ideological cohesion.
The controversy created by the June 6 judgement of the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench, banning the use of the term “Dalit” in government communication, while sterile on the face of it, is pregnant with meaning.
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Discipline, Dissent and ‘Urban Naxals’

Discipline, Dissent and ‘Urban Naxals’

VIKALP / By Satyaki Roy

One of the major features of the current regime is that it insinuates a concerted process of criminalization, assassination and intimidation as an evolving architecture of punishment not being backed by any judicial probe.
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Why the State Is Attempting to Link Dalit Resistance to Maoism

Why the State Is Attempting to Link Dalit Resistance to Maoism

The Wire / Sowjanya Tamalapakula

The Muslim question has been dealt with by stigmatising Muslims as ‘anti-national’ and the ‘other’ to the larger Hindu community. Stigmatising Dalits in a similar fashion is not plausible because Dalits are an essential part of the ‘Hindu community’.
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The Dispossession and Criminalisation of Adivasis in Central India

The Dispossession and Criminalisation of Adivasis in Central India

First published: Aug 3, 2010

Sanhati / By Stan Swamy

The dispossessed Adivasi is hunted as a criminal;
the looter-outsider has become ‘honourable citizen’.
1. The sad story of impoverishment of the Adivasi : A few examples will suffice. Gladson Dungdung is a young human rights activist and writer. His family had 20 acres of fertile land in Simdega district, Jharkhand . It was forcibly acquired by the govt for the construction of a dam at a terribly low rate. The compensation for the 20 acres fertile land the family got was Rs. 11,000. Even by minimal standards, it should have been at least Rs. 20 Iakhs. This is just one example among many many such deprivations. Is this not deliberate impoverishment of a people ?
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