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A Nomad Called Thief: Reflections on Adivasi Silence
G.N.Devy
Price
525.00
ISBN
9788125030218
Language
English
Pages
199
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2006
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan
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A collection of essays on Adivasis. Tribal groups (adivasis) in India have often been excluded, marginalized and oppressed by `mainstream’ society. In many ways this exclusion, marginalization and oppression is fostered by the way in which `mainstream’ society looks at the adivasis – as exotic, dangerous, or `primitive’ others. Devy’s book looks at the problems of adivasis, the threat to their physical environment, the terror and indignity of the stigma of being considered “criminal” tribes and their induction into the communal violence in Gujarat. But he also discusses the simple sophistication of Adivasi knowledge systems, language and literature, as also initiatives taken along with tribals in the areas of health, microfinance and preservation of cultural forms.

Prof. G.N. Devy was for many years, Professor of English at MS University, Baroda. Turning full time to activism, he founded the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre at Baroda to document the cultural practices, languages and literatures of tribals. He is also a founder-member of the Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh – an open `university’ for the study of tribal life and knowledge, and of the world through tribal eyes. He is currently Professor of Humanities at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Technology. He is the author of several books – 3 of these have been published by Orient Blackswan (After Amnesia, Of Many Heroes and Indian Literary Criticism).
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