We Were Adivasis: Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
Megan Moodie | 2015 | ISBN: 022625304X | English | 230 pages | PDF(conv) | 8 MB
Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines

In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state�s relationship to �Scheduled Tribes,� or adivasis�historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. She shows how they must simultaneously affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past: we were adivasis.