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Paper short abstract

The paper aims to look at the existing livelihoods in the drought-prone region of Andhra Pradesh. The drought is due to the changing nature of climatic behavior prevailing in the area, and thus further led to large-scale migration of the poor and vulnerable tribal communities to the towns.

Paper long abstract

The topic of climate has a long history in the epistemological discourse of social sciences and anthropology. Many scholars have theorized how climate shapes society, assessing how climate differences, extremes, and seasonal patterns affect human activity. With a broad acceptance that climate organizes and shapes central aspects of our lives, there is the anthropogenic influence of post-industrial greenhouse gases. Current discussions about climate and weather differ in two ways from earlier interests in local weather, seasonal variations, extreme events, and cosmologies.

With the above discussion in the background, our paper aims to look at the existing livelihoods in the drought-prone region of Andhra Pradesh. The drought is due to the changing nature of climatic behavior prevailing in the area, and thus further led to large-scale migration of the poor and vulnerable tribal communities to the towns and urban areas to eke out their livelihoods. The paper also attempts to vividly explain the prevailing drought situation, folk narratives and oral histories on drought, opportunities and risks, and community coping mechanisms. It also looks at the adaptive mechanisms of the tribal or Adivasi communities in the region. The paper largely depends on the primary data collected from the ethnographic study among the Sugali tribe of Andhra Pradesh. It also bases its inferences on the data gathered from official reports and records, Census records, published and unpublished research reports, papers, etc. Besides, it also draws inferences from the studies made by the scholars in Andhra Pradesh and elsewhere.