Tribal and human rights

The chapters in this book 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 chapters 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 states 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.

CONTENTS

• Introduction. The Adivasis of India. Plight of India's Tribal Peoples Approach to Tribal Development and the Forest Rights Act The Indian Forest Act Govt. of India Special Schemes for Tribal Development. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Linguistic Genocide: Tribal Education in India. PESA, the Forest Rights Act, and Tribal Rights in India Tribal Rights Tribal Land Issues in India: Communal Management, Rights and Displacement Land and Cultural Survival: The Communal Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Asia Tribal Problems and Measures to Solve These Problems. The National Tribal Policy (A policy for the Scheduled Tribes of India)