Featuring adivasi/indigenous studies

Abstract

The possibilities and impossibilities of carving out a separate Adivasi/indigenous studies field within Indian academia are foregrounded. Counterposing the existing modernist and integrationist studies which endeavoured to weave the multiple histories into one singular Adivasi subjectivity to provide an ontological and epistemological understanding of Adivasi society, it proposes an alternative approach to read and analyse Adivasi society on the foundation of indigeneity, which makes a case for the federation of Adivasi/indigenous studies from a politico-epistemological perspective, as the Adivasi question is mainly both political and epistemological.