Adivasi

In Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad discusses how the Europeans treat the native congo people. Throughout the novella imperialism is presented by the Europeans attempting to colonize the Congo region. Joseph Conrad explains the harsh exploitation of the Congo through the perspective of Marlow. Marlow sees how the natives are treated with disrespect as their rightful land is taken from them. By analyzing Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad through a new criticism lens, one can see that the novella includes literary devices such as diction, symbolism, and similes to describe the cruel treatment of the natives and the imperialism in Africa. Throughout the Novella Conrad uses dark diction. On page 19, Conrad utilizes the word, “violent” to display the cruelty of imperialism. He also uses words such as “decaying”, “dull”, and “devastation” (15). Through this diction, Conrad is able to display how the people of the Congo region were treated and the area they lived in. These words show that the people in this region were treated so poorly that their lives have changed, decayed, and the impact on their lives is devastating. The use of these specific words give the reader a small feeling of what the Congo people are actually experiencing daily from the Europeans.Through imperialism, the Europeans were able to conquer the Congo people and treat them in a very poor fashion. Conrad uses the dark and dismal diction to explain the dark experiences of Marlow, Kurtz, and the natives of…

The tribal memoir, Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda is an intricately written body of work that recounts the social and historical story of an entire peoples. The memoir’s use of several different mediums assists in exposing all aspects of Indian life including periods of subjugation through missionization and secularization. The period labeled as “Reinvention” focuses deeply on the wave of immense interest in the study of Indian culture by white men. Miranda includes in this period a section…

centuries of upper caste atrocities committed against the Dalits, in his book, Post- Hindu India: Discourse on Dalit Bahujan Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution (2009), and another book, The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015) by an Adivasi writer, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, is banned by Jharkhand state government on the charge of 'misrepresenting" the Adivasi, indigenous, people. Indian Independence "liberated" the elite Hindu upper caste Brahmin but maintained the colonial legacy of pushing…

Part B. B1. Guha argues that the “Adivasis as a whole have gained least and lost most from six decades of democracy and development in India” Ramachandra Guha in his essay argues that Adivasis are the ones who has gained almost nothing from the development of India after its independence but instead they have been exploited and have lost so much from their lives in the process. He focuses on the tribals of peninsular India who are marginalized invisible victims with other minorities to show how…

Poverty and Social Exclusion – Adivasis Given the hierarchal structure of our Indian society, exclusion linked deprivation is associated to groups like Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) which comprise a large segment of the population. Social exclusion in layman’s language is the lack of equal opportunities for some groups which restricts their political, social and economic participation in an economy. This was the case of Hasari Pal in the movie…

The Bhils make up 4.5 million people of India’s population and inhabit 40,000 square kilometers of India, yet this group is still considered unimportant. Instead of working with the Bhils to find ways to mesh their traditions with modern life, India has used their misunderstanding of modern culture to strip them from their lands and to prevent them from using their traditional resources. This is especially troubling when these hunter-gatherer people have no other way to support themselves and…

Dalit literature emerged as a response to the hegemonic Brahminic oppression and its various forms of silencing the Dalits. Though there are various thinkers, such as Buddha, Jyotiba Phule, S.M. Mate who were concerned about the plight of the lowest caste and untouchables but it was B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), who is considered "the pioneer of Dalit literature" (Dangle vii). Ambedkar's writing and his political activism played a significant role in understanding the injustices and atrocities of…

Introduction The present study on knowledge, attitude and practice of Paniya tribes on mental illness gives an idea about tribe’s perspective on mental illness their belief and health seeking behavior. Tribes believed to be original inhabitant of the country. Because of that they called that Adivasi. Adivasi is an umbrella term used to represent the set of ethnic and tribal people of India. There around 580 tribal groups are in India. The study will conduct in people of the Paniya tribe,…

It actually originates from profit-centric ‘development’ projects designed and controlled by the mainstream consumerist planners. Devi’s displeasure with the breakdown of ecological sanctity and sustainability is clearly reflected here: “Once there were animals in the forest, life was wild, the hunt game had meaning. Now the forest is empty, life wasted and drained, the hunt game meaningless. Only the day’s joy is real.” (12). Again, Devi’s concernment for the marginalized state of women in…

herders, agriculturalists, artisans, and merchants. The fourth caste is the Shudras. They were considered so low that the Shudras were prohibited from reading the "Vedas," the earliest Indian sacred texts. The Shudras are now considered a "scheduled caste," meaning they are historically disadvantaged. The fifth caste is the Dalits. The sanskrit word "Dalit" roughly translates to "ground," "crushed," or "suppressed." They are viewed as the plebian caste and are linked with impure occupations,…