Adivasi Writers: An Introduction to India's Indigenous Literature

Bibliography: Primary Texts, Criticism, Journalism

This bibliography is a work in progress. 

Primary Texts (fiction, poetry) 

Temsula Ao, Laburnum for My Head: Stories, Penguin Books India, 2015

Temsula Ao, These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone, Penguin Books India, 2005. 

Laxman Gaikwad, The Branded (Uchalya). Translated from the Marathi

Avinuo Kire, Where the Cobbled Path Leads. Penguin Books India, 2022 (English)

Easterine Kire, Spirit Nights, 2021 (English)

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, 2014. 

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories. Speaking Tiger Press, 2015 (English)

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, My Father's Garden, 2018

Narayan, Kocharethi: The Araya Woman. Translated into English from  Malayalam, 1998

Mamang Dai, the Black Hill. Aleph Book Company, 2014 (English)



Non-fiction writings (Scholarship, Ethnography, Journalism)

Subhayu Bhattacharjee and Sinor Lama, "Reversing Sovereignty: Deconstructing State 'Rights' and 'Welfare' in Jacinta Kerketta's Poetry." Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2024. 

Debasree De, A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India: The Margins of the Marginals. Sage Press, 2018. 

Daniel J. Rycroft and Sangeeta Dasgupta, The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi. Routledge, 2011.

Ashok Kumar Sen, Indigeneity, Landscape, and History: Adivasi Self-Fashioning in India. Routledge, 2018. 

Virginius Xaxa, Vincent Ekka Anabel Benjamin Bara, Juhi Priyanka Horo, Eds. India's Indigenous peoples: A Journey of Self-Reflection on Culture, Society, and Sustainability. New Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 2021. 
 

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