Contested Resources, History and Epistemologies: The Lived Experiences of the Indigenous Forest Villagers in North Bengal

dc.contributor.authorPaul, Mrinalini
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-03T07:58:44Z
dc.date.available2023-11-03T07:58:44Z
dc.date.issued31-03-2023
dc.description.abstractThis paper argues that Adivasi and tribal studies in India have been overshadowed by methodologies and ideologies bearing heavy colonial underpinnings. In order to develop this discipline further with sound epistemological base, it is necessary to engage with methodologies of a more organic and post-colonial nature. This paper uses the Adaptation-Negotiation-Freedom (ANF) framework (Bodhi and Jojo 2019) to understand the historical and contemporary critical events in the lives of the indigenous and Adivasi communities of the forest villages of North Bengal. The ANF framework has been developed contesting the predominant Isolation-Assimilation- Integration (IAI) framework that arises from a caste society understanding and defines the “tribal” as a residual category. The larger significance of adopting such a framework, beyond academics, is that these researches and data contribute to the policy framework of the country. One of the reasons for the continuous socio-economic deprivation and cultural dispossession of the tribal communities in the country, in spite of various legal safeguards, protective legislations and constitutional provisions, can definitely be attributed to the epistemological injustice taking place. This paper is based on a qualitative ethnography which places the researcher’s descriptions, observations and the forest villagers’ experiences (mostly Rabhas and Oraons) in both the ANF and IAI framework, and finds that the former offers a relatively authentic story of the micro socio-cultural politics and narratives arising from the landscape.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2348-6538
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/5052
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of North Bengalen_US
dc.subjectForest villageen_US
dc.subjectBengalen_US
dc.subjectFrameworken_US
dc.subjectTribalen_US
dc.subjectAdivasien_US
dc.subjectRabhasen_US
dc.subjectDecolonialen_US
dc.subjectEpistemologyen_US
dc.titleContested Resources, History and Epistemologies: The Lived Experiences of the Indigenous Forest Villagers in North Bengalen_US
dc.title.alternativeSocial Trends, Vol. 10, 31-March-2023, pp. 91-109en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
periodical.editorRoy, Sanjay K.
periodical.nameSocial Trends
periodical.pageEnd109
periodical.pageStart91
periodical.volumeNumber10

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