Week 1: Introduction: Historicizing the Concept of Tribe; Understanding the Concept of Tribe- Indigenous People, Adivasi, Janjati; Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs), De-notified Tribes/Criminal Tribes
Week 2: Understanding Tribes in India— Social Organization of Tribes; Tribal Economy; Political Institutions in Tribal Societies; Women in Tribal Society; Cultural Assimilation and Integration; Tribe-Caste Continuum, Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives of Tribes in India
Week 3: Tribe as Peasant, Tribe as Ethnic Group; Problems of Categories and Classifications; Methods and Approaches to the Study of Tribes
Week 4: Tribes during the Colonial Rule I: Integration and Annexation of Tribal Regions; Anti-colonial Movements and Resistance against Colonial Expansion; Case Studies on Chottanagpur and Lushai Hills
Week 5: Tribes and the Indian National Movement; Tribes during the Colonial Rule II: Administration of Tribal Areas—Laws and Legislations; Resource Rights—Land, Water, and Forests
Week 6: Dispossession and Conflict; Exploitation and Indentureship; Plantation Economy; Tribes in Post-colonial India I: Constitution Making and the Role of Tribes
Week 7: Constitutional Provisions for Tribes in India; Protective Discrimination and Welfare of Tribes
Week 8: Tribes in Post-colonial India II: Tribal Administration and Autonomy Provisions; Tribal Politics and Political Parties; Case Studies from Jharkhand and Northeast India (Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, and Manipur)
Week 9: Development and Tribes: Internal Migration and Socio-cultural Changes; Tribal Middle Class; Social Exclusion
Week 10: Socio-economic Status of Tribes in the Post-reform Era; Tribal Narratives: Oral Histories, Folklore and Myths, Songs, Performances, Rituals, Festivals, and Contemporary Tribal Literature
Week 11: Social Movements: Tribal Activism and Tribal Rights; Environmental Movements, Case Studies; Globalization and Tribes- Popular and Digital Culture
Week 12: Cultural Entrepreneurs and Influencers; Tribes and Social Media; Tribal Studies and Humanities and Social Sciences; The Future of Tribal Studies in India- Current Trends and Scopes; Tribal and Religion (Tribal Myths, Ecology and Nature Worship, Role of Performance in Tribal Rituals, Tribal Religion and Gender, Tribal Religion and Socio-Political Set-up)
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