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    Catalysts but Not Magicians: Role of NGOs in the Tribal Development
    ( 2018-04-01) Thamminaina, Apparao
    The territories inhabited by the tribal communities of India often attract a wide variety of external agents and agencies for variety of reasons. One very important segment of such agencies often cites development and transformation of tribal communities as the prime objective. The “official” category is the agency of planned change, and its responsibility is to work in accordance with the profile of the job or institution. Besides this, there is another important category, “social worker,” whose presence is voluntary, at least in theory. The dominant section of the later is popular as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In recent years, efforts are made to bring together the activities of government and NGOs to maximize the benefit to tribal communities and to speed up the process of social and economic transformation. The idea of government organization and nongovernmental organization (GO-NGO) partnership gained momentum. The results of these partnerships proved positive when compared with the programs implemented by the government organization alone. Several NGOs are successful because they train local youth as resource persons according to the needs of development initiatives. However, it is not necessary that every development activity implemented by them would be successful. In this context, the article examines the role of NGOs in the process of tribal development by analyzing their activities and the results.
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    Economic Transformations in a Savara Village of Andhra Pradesh: Tamarind to Cashew
    ( 2019-11-01) Sharma, Bhallamudi V.
    Even tribal communities in India living in relative geographic isolation have experienced significant transformations during the last 70 years. Many studies have investigated the impact of tribal development programmes on the socio-economic conditions of different tribal communities. However, few attempts to systematically re-study the same tribal village after some decades have been made. This article re-examines the transformation of different sources of income for a Savara village in Andhra Pradesh and specifically scrutinises the impact of cashew plantations promoted in 1983–5. Since the acceptance to undertake cashew plantation was a precondition for the Savara of Manapuram to achieve economic and language integration, the question becomes what have been the results after some decades. The article identifies many consequences for this community, not just a shift from tamarind to cashew.
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    Gender and Division of Labor: Capturing Inequality through an Ethnographic Study
    ( 2019-09-01) Singh, M. Romesh
    This paper attempts to connect questions of gender construction and gender-based discrimination in terms of access to “…. Resources…. especially knowledge, power, position and culture…. and contribute….” to gender sensitive ethnographic studies; to examine occupational, structural and power inequalities within the tribal village setting of Boddaputtu and Borrapallam. It focuses on the economic conditions, the determinants by which labor is divided, and how these two systems “intertwine,” all of which influence how aspects of gender are constructed and reinforced. The paper highlights that there is division of labor that prescribes certain economic activities to males and certain activities to females.