We Were Adivasis

By: Megan Moodie

ISBN-13: 9780226253046
ISBN-10: 022625304X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published date: 2015-08-20
Anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state’s relationship to ‘scheduled tribes’, or adivasis – historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long-marginalised tribal communities.