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Pathalgadi Movement: Among the Protesting Voices

Documenting a popular movement often drags you into the movement practices and even if one doesn’t want, the nature of movement makes it impossible for the researcher to remain impartial. However, if remaining impartial means remaining reactionless and numb, I do not want to assume that objective neutrality. Whenever I have studied the politics of popular movements in remote villages where the most marginal sections of society are the participants, I have learned a lot from them. Somehow, wittingly or unwittingly, I have, from researcher, become a participant in these movements; from Nandigram, and Lalgarh in West Bengal, Dhinkia-Nuagaon in Odisha, Godda in Jharkhand to Khunti. This article recapitulates the long and arduous battle of the adivasis of Jharkhand’s Khunti and its adjoining districts

Sati-Pati Cult of Gujarat Pathalgadi Movement Panchayat Extension to the Scheduled Areas (PESA)

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