Indigenous Traditional Administrative Systems

Adivasi means the First People. This is how the indigenous peoples of Indian peninsula prefer to call themselves. This book investigates into some of the important historical facts of the Adivasis in central-east India ? Jharkhand. It is by going into the primary and secondary sources to validate the important role played by the customary institutions of Adivasis? in their historical continuity. The relevance of this institutions? conceptual organization ? part of the indigenous knowledge in the course of development of the state here demonstrates it as a module in the discourse of social sciences. This book also examines the conflict between the communitarian rights in which these institutions are already based on and the Indian state?s embedded-ness in a legal framework based on the concept of individual rights ownership etc. Most significantly this study attempts to assert the relevance of the Adivasi?s geo-cultural-political institutions in the present context of the politics of the Indian state.