#adivasi — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #adivasi, aggregated by home.social.
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The targeted attacks by pro-company people or hired goondas and the active connivance of the district administration with the company is coming down heavy on the movement. Even then, the adivasis and Dalits opposed to mining are fighting it out legally in the courts and through large mobilization on the ground.
#resistance #adivasi #dalit #capitalisticAttack #environment #climatechange #politics
https://www.groundxero.in/2026/03/23/tijmali-an-undeclared-conflict-zone/
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#India - Seeds of #Resistance for #FoodSovereignty
April 2017
Excerpt: "Community action-reflection-action processes to identify and analyse the forces that obstruct food sovereignty, and evolve collective transformative actions for food sovereignty is a core practice of our movement. Community food sovereignty plans have emerged as a critical expression of political action.
"Life cycles amongst #adivasi communities, and agriculture cycles in small #farmer peasant and pastoralist communities, along with communities’ indigenous knowledge, provide a framework for the plans. The plans include: democratic governance of resources-land, water, forests, territories, biodiversity, seeds, breeds and knowledge; nurturing life in our soils and growing, consuming and sharing healthy diverse and culturally appropriate food agro-ecologically, asserting seed and animal breed sovereignty through saving and exchange of local seeds and breeds between food farmers; reciprocal systems of sharing labour, knowledge and produce; strengthening local food markets that connect producers and consumers, leading to the diversification and revival of food crops. The alliance enables members to share and exchange seeds across regions, particularly accessing seeds that have disappeared from their region, which they wish to revive. Social justice is central to the idea of food sovereignty, and hence breaking the unjust structures of caste, class and patriarchy are core elements of the movement.
"Intergenerational learning and sharing of knowledge between community elders and youth is an essential strategy. Youth learn from community elders, particularly women, accompanying them as they collect diverse tubers, herbs, fruits and seeds, learning about how to process and store produce, save seeds, establish community seed banks and learn to craft and use local agriculture implements.
"Celebrating the diversity of food, through local festivals, song, dance, theatre, community cooking and other cultural actions, linked to the life cycles and seasonal agricultural calendars, enhance our practice. Campaigns, jatras and food sovereignty summits, community action research on specific questions, sharing our experiences and concerns through mainstream media, popular and academic journals, are other critical strategies to nurture solidarity and collective actions for food sovereignty."
Read more:
https://www.leisaindia.org/seeds-of-resistance-for-food-sovereignty/#SolarPunkSunday #SeedsOfResistance #FoodSovereignty #GenerationalKnowledge #KnowledgeSharing #TraditionalAgriculture #CollectiveAction #CollectiveLearning #SeedBanks #SeedSaving #BioDiversity #FoodIsLife #Agroecology
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OnlineFirst - "“Forest doesn’t burn anymore”: Indigenous ontologies of cultural burning and fire in Southern India" by Helina Jolly, Milind Kandlikar, Suma Vishnudas, and Terre Satterfield:
#Adivasi #WesternGhats #SouthIndia #decolonization
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/25148486251323153
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Every day there are news reports of 17, 22, 31 “Maoists” killed. Many of those killed are simply tribal villagers caught in the crosshairs of the deadly, remote-controlled sophistry of modern weaponry. How do these weapons decide who is a Maoist? How do you throw a bomb from a helicopter and know it will land only on a Maoist? What does a Maoist look like? Nobody knows. If supporting the Adivasi cause or reading Karl Marx in your city apartment can get you labelled an urban naxal, then every forest-dweller clinging to her land can be a Maoist. The labels work like infrared emissions, attracting arrests and bullets with unerring regularity.
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Every day there are news reports of 17, 22, 31 “Maoists” killed. Many of those killed are simply tribal villagers caught in the crosshairs of the deadly, remote-controlled sophistry of modern weaponry. How do these weapons decide who is a Maoist? How do you throw a bomb from a helicopter and know it will land only on a Maoist? What does a Maoist look like? Nobody knows. If supporting the Adivasi cause or reading Karl Marx in your city apartment can get you labelled an urban naxal, then every forest-dweller clinging to her land can be a Maoist. The labels work like infrared emissions, attracting arrests and bullets with unerring regularity.
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Every day there are news reports of 17, 22, 31 “Maoists” killed. Many of those killed are simply tribal villagers caught in the crosshairs of the deadly, remote-controlled sophistry of modern weaponry. How do these weapons decide who is a Maoist? How do you throw a bomb from a helicopter and know it will land only on a Maoist? What does a Maoist look like? Nobody knows. If supporting the Adivasi cause or reading Karl Marx in your city apartment can get you labelled an urban naxal, then every forest-dweller clinging to her land can be a Maoist. The labels work like infrared emissions, attracting arrests and bullets with unerring regularity.
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Every day there are news reports of 17, 22, 31 “Maoists” killed. Many of those killed are simply tribal villagers caught in the crosshairs of the deadly, remote-controlled sophistry of modern weaponry. How do these weapons decide who is a Maoist? How do you throw a bomb from a helicopter and know it will land only on a Maoist? What does a Maoist look like? Nobody knows. If supporting the Adivasi cause or reading Karl Marx in your city apartment can get you labelled an urban naxal, then every forest-dweller clinging to her land can be a Maoist. The labels work like infrared emissions, attracting arrests and bullets with unerring regularity.
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I've been in touch with the folks at Native-Land.ca to see about adding India's indigenous (Adivasi) communities to their project. They already have great coverage of North America and Australia (and now Taiwan!).
It's going to be hard -- the Indian government keeps good census data, but not GIS maps that I know of. To help facilitate it, I put together a primer for them with links to some existing resources:
http://www.electrostani.com/2023/08/mapping-indias-indigenous-adivasi.html
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I'm looking for collaborators to pull together map data related to tribal / #Adivasi communities in #SouthAsia and have that added to the Native-Land.ca project.
I have some analog maps to start with like the one below. It's going to take some work to translate these to GIS!
If you have either subject-area expertise or technical expertise (i.e., translating analog maps--> #GIS), I would love to hear from you...
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In tribal-dominated Chhattisgarh, BJP maintains studied silence on UCC
The Congress in the state is openly opposing the UCC. On the other hand, the BJP is asking how Congress leaders can express their opinions when the UCC draft is yet to come.
#chhattisgarh #UCC #tribals #adivasi #culture #BJP #INC #congress #majoritarianism #hindutva #india
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Who Is Pravesh Shukla? BJP Leader Who Urinated On Tribal Man In MP
Pravesh Shukla's father rubbishes BJP MLA Kedar Nath Shukla's statement denying any ties with his son.
#MadhyaPradesh #casteism #tribals #adivasi #brahminism #caste #HumanRights #PraveshShukla #BJP #hindutva #india
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Tribal groups set to oppose UCC, say it will strip indigenous people of their identity, way of life
Prominent leaders of indigenous people feel their opinions were not considered. They termed the proposed legislation anti-tribal.
#UCC #BJP #tribals #adivasi #identity #kerala #diversity #hindutva #india
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#HorizontalReservation for #trans #people: #GraceBanu is in no mood to give up her struggle
"#Dalit and #Adivasi #trans #people are very #vulnerable and we are facing double the amount of #oppression in the name of #caste and #gender," says #GraceBanu.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #India #Workplace #Education #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
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Neoliberal damage
Distress in the Fields is an exhaustive account of the agricultural policies enforced in India after the 1991 economic reforms and the agrarian crisis that followed.
#BookReview #AgrarianCrisis #agriculture #EconomicReforms #neoliberalism #policy #economy #dalit #dalits #adivasi #india #books #bookstodon #RRamakumar
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IIT-Bombay Dalit student death | Senior says Darshan Solanki felt alienated by roommate
The senior deposed before the committee orally on February 17 and sent a signed written statement to the committee on February 19.
#DarshanSolanki #IITBombay #IIRB #suicide #caste #casteism #CasteViolence #discrimination #dalits #dalit #SCST #adivasi #MentalHealth #students #education #maharashtra #india
TW: suicide
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IIT Bombay Suicide: Did Authorities Fail to Act Even After Surveys Pointed to Rampant Casteism?
Although an internal probe panel linked the recent suicide of a Dalit student on the campus to academic performance, at least three surveys by SC-ST Student Cell pointed to a highly discriminative atmosphere on campus towards students from the Dalit and Adivasi communities.
#maharashtra #mumbai #DarshanSolanki #IITBombay #casteism #dalits #suicide #education #caste #discrimination #dalit #adivasi #SCST #IITB #brahminism #MentalHealth #india
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Not only the BJP: Why Ambedkarites also oppose the collegium system
Dalit and Adivasi activists say that the collegium system of judges’ appointment has led to minuscule representation from backward communities.
“Collegium has proved inefficient with the idea of diversity,” said author and Dalit scholar Suraj Yengde. “It has been nepotistic.”
#collegium #dalit #dalits #adivasi #IndianJudiciary #BJP #ambedkarites #caste #casteism #india
https://scroll.in/article/1039835/not-only-the-bjp-why-ambedkarites-also-oppose-the-collegium-system
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Not only the BJP: Why Ambedkarites also oppose the collegium system
Dalit and Adivasi activists say that the collegium system of judges’ appointment has led to minuscule representation from backward communities.
“Collegium has proved inefficient with the idea of diversity,” said author and Dalit scholar Suraj Yengde. “It has been nepotistic.”
#collegium #dalit #dalits #adivasi #IndianJudiciary #BJP #ambedkarites #caste #casteism #india
https://scroll.in/article/1039835/not-only-the-bjp-why-ambedkarites-also-oppose-the-collegium-system
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Christian leaders raise concerns about forcible conversion of Christian Adivasis to Hinduism
There is a sustained and organised campaign to forcibly convert Christian Adivasis to a Hindu way of life, found a fact-finding team who visited Chhattisgarh districts Narayanpur and Kondagaon where Adivasi Christian communities have been attacked by Hindutva groups.
#adivasi #tribals #christians #chhattisgarh #christianity #hinduism #religion #ForcedConversion #hindutva #ReligiousFreedom #MastIndia #india
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Christian leaders raise concerns about forcible conversion of Christian Adivasis to Hinduism
There is a sustained and organised campaign to forcibly convert Christian Adivasis to a Hindu way of life, found a fact-finding team who visited Chhattisgarh districts Narayanpur and Kondagaon where Adivasi Christian communities have been attacked by Hindutva groups.
#adivasi #tribals #christians #chhattisgarh #christianity #hinduism #religion #ForcedConversion #hindutva #ReligiousFreedom #MastIndia #india
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K. P. Sasi’s 2016 #documentary “Voices From the Ruins”—on the 2008 violence directed against primarily #Christian #Dalit and #Adivasi communities in Kandhamal district of #Orissa, #India—analyses the #historical roots of that violence, its impact on various sections, and the communities’ #struggles for #justice.
#KPSasi #filmmaker #documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9T5fmc05to
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On the #hate and #bigotry against #Dalit, #Adivasi, #Muslim and other #marginalized #students across #classrooms in #India
#education #school #schooling #college #teachers #teaching #children
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OK, lets get into this #introduction business. 10 years ago I didn't mind putting my identity in my bio, but over the years it's felt more restrictive.
So instead, a bunch of hashtags about things I'm likely to post or boost about -
#Delhi #India #Crows #Cephalopods #Cetaceans #Caste #Race #Queer #Dalit #Adivasi #Bahujan #Ambedkarite #Environment #Hindutva #Feminism #Fanfic #Pakistan #Kenya #Nigeria #Ghana #SouthAsia #Africa #MediaCriticism #PettyWhining #Shitposts #FediverseMeta #Perimenopause -
Follow @thesatyashodhak for news and views from #Dalit #Bahujan and #Adivasi voices.
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Indische Behörden haben zwei riesige #Kohle-Projekte auf #Adivasi-Land – trotz lautstarker Proteste der indigenen Widerstandsbewegung – gebilligt.
Niklas Ennen von @SurvivalDeutsch
im Interview:
https://rdl.de/beitrag/rodung-teilen-des-hasdeo-waldes-gebilligt -
#Adivasi everywhere have it the same. Singapore #tribal were displaced, resettled, they have lost their cultural context and even their distinctive food.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210824-the-forgotten-first-people-of-singapore -
Silger #adivasi of more than 30 villages from Sukma, Bijapur and #Dantewada districts on agitation against a new security camp at #Silger since May 14 go home, say protest to continue
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/silger-tribals-go-home-say-protest-to-continue-7355255/ #Adivasi #India -
The Dalit-Bahujan Guide to Understanding Caste in Hindu Scripture
"Those with sovereignty in a system of oppression can think of that system as stabilizing, but those condemned to the slavery of the system — will view it for what it is — exploitative and destabilizing." #dalit #bahujan #adivasi #india #caste #varna #jati
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#Kashmir launches enumeration of #tribal and nomadic population. Will issue a smartcard to each person. Doesn't tell of creation of any mechanism to issue them to each newborn after survey or those unreached. Also #Aadhaar is out?
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/jk-launches-survey-of-nomadic-population-7336146/ #Adivasi -
Everywhere #Adivasi have similar struggles... they are keepers of the last bastions of greenery and must fight protracted battles to preserve it...
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/19/americas/brazil-indigenous-protest-mining-intl-latam/ #Brazil -
"Four Lessons from the Garden
Reflections on the work of #Narendra "
Definitely interesting, if a bit prelapsarian.
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📡 Forse il feed partito in automatico ieri l'avete perso, ma... #sapevatelo:
📢 il prossimo numero, #Zapruder53, è quasi pronto per la stampa e sarà dedicato a #potere, #popolo e #democrazia.
📚Per farvi ambientare con i temi del numero vi proponiamo la traduzione di un saggio di #AlpaShah sulle pratiche di autonomia degli #adivasi in #India, in un quadro di conflitto tra #stato e guerriglia maoista.
Ecco 👇 https://frama.link/jkFgawqx
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#Jharkhand #Adivasi today demanded a distinct religious code for their #Sarna faith and practices.
Long overdue. It is unfortunate their distinct practices are lumped under "Hindu" caste centric practices
https://www.prabhatkhabar.com/state/jharkhand/ranchi/jharkhand-tribal-religion-code-tribal-society-made-this-demand-for-its-identity-by-creating-a-human-chain-gur #India #tribal