Paper short abstract:

Seventy years of long struggle within the Indian State and the Adivasis are still fighting for their rightful political place, upholding their cultural rights.

Paper long abstract:

The Adivasis of Central Tribal India have locked their horns against the most powerful democracy in the sub-continent, india, asserting all that they have left this time. The Indian State since 1990 have strategically moved into the Adivasi heartland, constructing pseudo enemies and is waging a war against the people of the country. The Adivasis who have preferred to live with their socio-cultural practices and their political institutions are threatened by the inroad of State forces walking into their everyday living spaces. They are protesting against their takeover of land and their political rights. The Indian State's economic policy along with the underlying feudal character of the ruling elite seems to have built a trio--industrial-military-State nexus. And it is this nexus which is standing opposite the protesting Adivasis.