Contested Indigeneities: “Adivasi†Politics Historically and in Contemporary Times

Archana Prasad

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, vol. 11, issue 1, 37-61

Abstract: This article focuses on the development and transformations of adivasi political identity and its articulations with indigenous consciousness in India since the advent of colonial capitalism. The apogee of adivasi politics and the “politics of indigeneity†since the 1970s has coincided with the networking among indigenous groups within the United Nations. The history of such politics will be traced in order to illustrate the forms in which social identities appear over a long historical process. In other words, the changing character of the antagonistic contradictions between the hegemon and different sections of the oppressed will be illustrated, including the articulation of “indigeneity†and “ adivasi †consciousness. Methodologically, the article promotes a dialectical interpretation of the phenomenon and counters a metaphysical analysis of identity politics.

Keywords: India; indigenous people; adivasis; identity politics; Hindu nationalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/22779760211068317

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