The scheduled tribes and their India: politics, identities, policies, and work/ edited by Nandini Sundar - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016. - xviii, 640 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - (Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology) .

Of the Scheduled Tribes, states and sociology / Nandini Sundar --
Environment and ethnicity in India, 1200-1991: from the archaeology of mind to the archaeology of matter / Sumit Guha --
From caste to tribe: an autobiographical essay / Tanka B. Subba --
Khasi women and matriliny: transformations in gender relations / Tiplut Nongbri --
Anthropology and the "indigenous slot": claims to and debates about indigenous peoples' status in India / Bengt G. Karlsson --
Adivasi vs. Vanvasi: the politics of conversion in Central India / Nandini Sundar --
Loving and forgetting: moments of inarticulacy in tribal India / Piers Vitebsky --
When the lost soil beckoned: life sketch narrated / C. K. Janu, translated by Usha Menon --
A discourse on non-violence / K. Satchidanandan --
Bauxite business in Odisha / Felix Padel and Samarendra Das --
Women against imperialism: peasants' and workers' movements in Madhya Pradesh / Chittaroopa Palit --
Three songs of struggle / composed and translated by various artists --
Indefinitely under trial: the case of the four Pahadiyas / Vasudha Dhagamwar --
Drought and TADA in Adilabad / K. Balagopal --
Protective discrimination: why Scheduled Tribes lag behind Scheduled Castes / Virginius Xaxa --
Social inequality, labour market dynamics and reservation / Mritiunjoy Mohanty --
Pedagogy and prescription / Bikram Narayan Nanda --
India's forest tenure reforms, 1992-2012 / Madhu Sarin --
Nationalizing space: cosmetic federalism and the politics of development in North-East India / Sanjib Baruah --
The ethnography of South Asian foragers / Jana Fortier --
The branded (Uchalya) / Laxman Gaikwad --
The tiger and the honey bee / Savyasaachi --
Tribal livelihood and the agrarian crisis / Archana Prasad --
The market wheel: symbolic aspects of an Indian tribal market / Alfred Gell --
On the margins in the city: Adivasi seasonal migration in Western India / David Mosse, Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah --
The making and unmaking of an Adivasi working class in Western Orissa / Christian Strumpell --
Cosmopolitan tribals: frontier migrants in Delhi / Duncan McDuie-Ra.

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