A Study on Empowering Scheduled Tribes towards Political Process in India
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 1
Abstract
The concept of 'tribe' has generated much debate in colonial and post colonial discourses, yet its contours lack explicit definition, despite its popular use in the discourses of social anthropologists, administrators, lawyers, tribal activists, politicians, and the government and international agencies. There has been more concern with the identification of tribes than with their definition in India. Popular discourse uses terms such as tribes, Scheduled Tribes, indigenous people, vanjati, adivasi and jana interchangeably. Nevertheless, each evokes different connotations and genealogies of use and representation in India. The concept of empowerment in its current usage is very new, as it does not find place in the Encyclopaedia, a number of dictionaries and glossaries of sociology textbooks. According to Biteille (1999:589), empowerment is related to certain context in Indian society. In hisown words, "in a nutshell, that context is the contradiction between a hierarchical social order and a democratic political system". He opines further, "the idea of empowerment may be invoked in virtually any context: in speaking about human rights, about basic needs, about economic security, about capacity building, about skill formation or about the conditions of a dignified social existence".
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K. Annamani Rao
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