“the Adivasi is not viewed as ‘a person’ with individual attributes and character, with specific roles and importance within his community, but lumped into a convenient category like Scheduled or Primitive Tribes.” — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share Image
“Food should figure in the writing of Adivasi identity. In villages far off the road, all the food – meat, fish, kuccha, yams –… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“Adivasi is only an incidental factor; a collateral that barely contributes to the GDP shrine.” — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“A society’s self-reliance is usually in inverse proportion to its reverence for the state. In some inexplicable way, the Adivasi of the deep forest… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“The kotwal is the perfect mouthpiece of the village, saying exactly those things that the police want to hear. The kotwals have perfected this… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“the subtler impact of not having one. The effect of a few hundred cattle grazing unrestrained, every day, within and around the village is… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“A child’s first visit to the haat, known as haat paithanow, ‘going to the haat’ is an important event.” — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“the Adivasi is not viewed as ‘a person’ with individual attributes and character, with specific roles and importance within his community, but lumped into… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“An Adivasi home fashions several kinds of leafcups each day: dokpa for rice; chokni for the side dish; koondu for the chava; and chipdi… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“The absence of cowherds and the presence of the tractor have edged out other sounds from many Adivasi lives. The sounds of men waking… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“Without the waist string, kita todu, and a name, a child does not belong to human society: the passage from nature to culture has… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“. Sarkar teen parkar: Adei thindana, narpitana Auru jiyam noipitana. (The” — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“Indeed, cheap rice has only made the availability of cowherds more difficult, if not impossible. People who tended cattle for payment in kind (food… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
“pathar pocha’, a leaf-wiper, an Adivasi. The manner of cleaning one’s bottom is stronger than any other custom in a culture. Most Adivasi people,… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share
