Poverty and Social Exclusion in India : Adivasis

This brief describes the poverty and social exclusion of the tribal groups in India. Tribal groups or Adivasis are considered to be the earliest inhabitants of India. While India is widely considered a success story in terms of growth and poverty...

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Main Authors:	Das, Maitreyi Bordia, Kapoor Mehta, Soumya
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	POVERTY SOCIAL TRIBES SCHEDULED TRIBE SCHEDULED CASTE CHILD NUTRITION HEALTHCARE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/390061491903376547/Issue-brief-poverty-and-social-exclusion-in-India-adivasis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26335

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spelling	okr-10986-263352021-04-23T14:04:35Z Poverty and Social Exclusion in India : Adivasis Das, Maitreyi Bordia Kapoor Mehta, Soumya POVERTY SOCIAL TRIBES SCHEDULED TRIBE SCHEDULED CASTE CHILD NUTRITION HEALTHCARE This brief describes the poverty and social exclusion of the tribal groups in India. Tribal groups or Adivasis are considered to be the earliest inhabitants of India. While India is widely considered a success story in terms of growth and poverty reduction, Adivasis in 2004–2005 were twenty years behind the average. Scheduled Tribes are often conflated with Scheduled Castes in the development literature, although they are completely different social categories. Physical remoteness and smaller numbers have gone together with political isolation and low voice in decision making for the Scheduled Tribes. There have been measures to assure defacto autonomy and self-rule to Adivasis, but implementation has been patchy. More discussion of tribal aspirations and problems from their point of view is needed, rather than an examination of such issues through the lens of policy makers, the bureaucracy, or the civil society. 2017-04-12T16:20:32Z 2017-04-12T16:20:32Z 2012 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/390061491903376547/Issue-brief-poverty-and-social-exclusion-in-India-adivasis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26335 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief South Asia India
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description	This brief describes the poverty and social exclusion of the tribal groups in India. Tribal groups or Adivasis are considered to be the earliest inhabitants of India. While India is widely considered a success story in terms of growth and poverty reduction, Adivasis in 2004–2005 were twenty years behind the average. Scheduled Tribes are often conflated with Scheduled Castes in the development literature, although they are completely different social categories. Physical remoteness and smaller numbers have gone together with political isolation and low voice in decision making for the Scheduled Tribes. There have been measures to assure defacto autonomy and self-rule to Adivasis, but implementation has been patchy. More discussion of tribal aspirations and problems from their point of view is needed, rather than an examination of such issues through the lens of policy makers, the bureaucracy, or the civil society.
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author	Das, Maitreyi Bordia Kapoor Mehta, Soumya
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title	Poverty and Social Exclusion in India : Adivasis
title_short	Poverty and Social Exclusion in India : Adivasis
title_full	Poverty and Social Exclusion in India : Adivasis
title_fullStr	Poverty and Social Exclusion in India : Adivasis
title_full_unstemmed	Poverty and Social Exclusion in India : Adivasis
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/390061491903376547/Issue-brief-poverty-and-social-exclusion-in-India-adivasis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26335
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Poverty and Social Exclusion in India : Adivasis

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