Resource Appropriation; Politics Of Exclusion Of Adivasis In ‘Kerala Model Development’

Abstract

When it comes to social development, Kerala has been the center of attention. This has been greatly debated all throughout the world. However, whether or not adivasis has been integrated in the developmental process is debatable. This study investigates how adivasis have been marginalized from the community's social and political growth. The study also analyses how the state has contributed to the marginalization of adivasis by obstructing legislation aimed at securing rights to land and forests. The important discussion on the Kerala Scheduled Tribes (Restoration on Transfer of Lands and Restoration of Alienated Lands) Act, 1975, and the Forest Rights Act of 2006, demonstrates how the state actively attempts to marginalize them.