Global Dimension and Transition of Tribal Development

Despite constitutional safeguards tribal people remain backward in contemporary India. The adverse implications of globalization privatization and liberalization have led to their exclusion loss of livelihood and dispossession. A major concern is the state‘s involvement in tribal areas as a facilitating agent for the unbridled play of neoliberal economics with several discrepancies between theoretical frameworks of tribal development and their practical implementation. Moreover the tribal worldwide is at risk today because of urbanization and matriculism whcih luces them into adopting the city life of the cost of losing their identity. Their ecological ethos based on their “organic cosmology” is undermined by western science and a market-oriented culture resulting in profound conservation implications. The indigenous skills and knowledge of the tribal also remain unrecognized. At the same time localized movement in tribal regions in India are raising several pentinent issues with the state and the civil society. This book an outcome of a national seminar on ‘Tribes in Transition: Issues and Challenges in the Era of Globalization’ organized at the University of Mumbai in January 2017 thoroughly explore themes of integration linguistics gender livelihood and identity. The contributors have comprehensively unraveled the plight of the tribal people as a result of developmental practices which ulternate them from the mainstream and above all from their own notes. The need of the home is to formulate an inclusive strategy where the tribal people are not mere passive receipient of the development agenda.