Paper short abstract:

Tribal life is holistic in nature. So displacement due to mega projects displaces them not only from their land, but also from other aspects of traditional life in new settlement site. The paper explores the aspects where they remain excluded.

Paper long abstract:

Ever since René Lenoir explained the unemployment situation in industrial capitalism vis-à-vis welfare concern in France in terms of exclusion and published his work Les Exclus in 1974, there has been an academic engagement to explain and comprehend issues apparently exclusionary at various levels of living across the cultures and nations. The concept is applied to study social inequality, and more often economic inequality, marginalisation, deprivation and displacement, which are synonyms of exclusion, in the process of development. It is used in contemporary scholarship as an analytical category to address such exclusionary issues as emerging from development strategies particularly in the era of globalisation. In this context it is noteworthy that mega projects as development strategy generally displace tribal people when these are commissioned in tribal inhabited regions. To the tribal people the life is a holistic perspective, for all aspects of life like social, economic, political, religious, etc. are interconnected, embedded and institutionalised in their culture. Logically, it follows that exclusion could be multidimensional for project-induced-displaced tribes. Keeping this in view the paper seeks to explore different aspects of life of tribal people where they find themselves excluded having been displaced with the commissioning of mega development projects.