We Were Adivasis
Subtitle: Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226252995
Subjects: Women, india; India, scheduled tribes
Description: 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.