Adivasi Essays

In Joseph's Conrad's novella, Heart of Darkness, Marlow narrates his journey to the dark and mysterious Congo. As a young sailor looking for a job, Marlow finds himself sailing to the Congo for one of Belgium's ivory companies. Marlow travels to one of the stations, where he meets the manager and is tasked with bringing back a renowned ivory collector in the interior, Kurtz. Sailing into the foggy Congo river, Marlow faces an attack from a nearby African tribe, and subdues them with the ship's blow

As Yehuda Berg said, “words have energy and power with the ability to help…[and] to harm.” Expanding upon his reflection to examine varying social perspectives on American expansionist, colonial and slave society contexts, one can see that officials of European descent including Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and John Eliot converted white words and ideas into mutually intelligible Native American terms to persuade tribal leaders to adopt white mores. Accordingly, some Native Americans responded

By 2009, close to fifty thousand people were evacuated and forced to take refuge in camps financed by the government. Reports highlight the burning of villages and arrests by Salwa Judum when such orders are not followed (Sundar 7). Murder and destruction are blamed on Naxalites and those arrested are accused of sympathy and propagation of Naxalite beliefs. Naxal forces have retaliated by bombing trucks carrying Salwa Judum militias and destroying schools being used by the paramilitary (“Maoists

Throughout the world, many people are discriminated based on their social standings such as jobs, wealth, authority, and race; however, in India, there has been a strict social structure that has impacted the country for hundreds of years. This social structure is known as the caste system. Members of Indian society are divided into castes, also known as jati, which from the time they are born greatly influence and shape the rest of their future (India- Caste and Class). The origins of the caste

Scheduled Castes (SCs), the Scheduled Tribes (STs) and the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). The Scheduled Castes consist the former untouchables and those people or groups of people at the bottom of the caste hierarchy. The Scheduled Tribes or the Adivasis are the tribal or aboriginal population considered to be mostly outside the mainstream society. The Oth-er Backward Classes are those which do not fall within the SCs and the STs, but are considered backward due to their social, educational, political

(Wikipedia) According to a report by Human Rights Watch, "Dalits and other casts (known as Scheduled Tribes or adivasis) continue to face discrimination, exclusion, and acts of communal violence. (Amnestyusa) India has a total area of 3287263 km2 (Wikipedia) India is rich in minerals such as iron, coal, mineral oil, manganese, bauxite and chromites. (Importantindia)

indicate that the direction in which society is headed is always in the hands of those who are powerful, and/or wealthy. However, time and again, there have been examples of those who are exploited by the system being able to unify and challenge it. The adivasi movement in India, typically in the

HSS ASSIGNMENT-2 PRATEEK BANSAL,IMT2012032 TOPIC Analyse how Michel Foucault’s ideas on “objectification of subject” can be used to critically understand foundations of Freudian Psychoanalysis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION Sigismund Schlomo Freud popularly known as Sigmund Freud, born on May 6th 1856 was a prominent neurologist and psychiatist of Jewish origin. Freud

Constitutional Provisions: Constitution is fundamental law of a nation. It links people, government, territory, sovereignty and international recognition. Modern constitutionalism emphasis written constitution with check and balance, democratic rights, protection of human rights, timely election, people’s sovereignty. Nepal and Korea both counties are based on liberal democratic political exercise. In the liberal democratic system government is considered to be responsible towards people. Government