![]() ![]() Frustrated, some tribals have embraced India’s Maoist uprising, which seeks to overthrow the government. Their protests are often ignored, and in some cases have been met with violence. Multinational corporations and government agencies have displaced them to build dams and extract valuable minerals, without providing adequate compensation. Quasi-feudal agricultural systems have kept many of them in debt and poverty. The British-Indian government subjected adivasis to police brutality, herded them into reformatory settlements and forced them to perform hard labor.Īdivasis - whose fate resembles that of North America’s indigenous populations - have fared little better in independent India. These groups were systematically victimized under colonial rule, when the British Raj passed legislation that classified them as criminals. ![]() Technological innovation and economic development have brought great wealth to a few parts of India, but they have further marginalized the country’s adivasis, or tribals, the aboriginal communities of forest dwellers and farmers who live outside of mainstream society. ![]()
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