UID:
almahu_9949383667102882
Format:
1 online resource (xxvi, 204 pages)
ISBN:
9780429285417
,
0429285418
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9781000186536
,
1000186539
Content:
"This volume explores the complexities of governance, law, and politics in India's Scheduled Areas. The Scheduled Areas (SAs) are those parts of the country which have been identified by the Fifth and Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India and are inhabited predominantly by tribal communities or Scheduled Tribes. SAs are often identified by their geographical isolation, primitive economies, and relatively egalitarian and closely knit society. Irrespective of the constitutional provision for governance and a mandate of devolution of power in terms of funds, functions and functionaries, the backwardness of these areas have remained a challenge. This volume attempts to explore the reasons behind the disregard for legal and institutional mechanism designed for the SAs. It examines the role of the state in the neoliberal era on fund allocation and utilisation, the governance of land and forest resources, and the ineffectiveness of the existing administrative structures and processes. It also looks into the interpretations of law by the judiciary while dealing with community rights vis-à-vis the state's prerogative of bringing development to the regions, and how development concerns are addressed in the name of 'good governance' by various stakeholders. Comprehensive and topical, this volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of political studies, development studies, developmental economics, sociology and social anthropology, and for policy makers"--
Note:
Introduction / Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly and Sujit Kumar -- Munki-Munda system of west Singbhum : historical overview of village governance and development / Asoka Kumar Sen -- Issues of financial governance in Scheduled Areas / Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly and Bhanu Shree Jain -- Role of tribal autonomous council in economic development in the Sixth Scheduled Areas / Sumarbin Umdor -- Instrumentalities of governance in a multi-ethnic nation-state : Sixth Schedule Area governance / Chandra Bhushan Kumar and Sonali Ghosh -- Mahua for Jharkhand's Ho? : an accountability analysis of minor forest product governance / Siddharth Sareen and Emma Jane Lord -- Politics of dispossession : land, law and protest in Jharkhand / Sujit Kumar -- Historical wrongs and forest rights : nascent jurisprudence on FRA and participatory evidence-making / Shomona Khanna -- Left wing extremism : re-examining challenges for development and governance in the Scheduled Areas / Richard Hemraj Toppo -- Pathalgadi movement and conflicting ideologies of tribal village governance / Anjana Singh.
Additional Edition:
Print version: India's scheduled areas Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9781138583726
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.4324/9780429285417
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429285417
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