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) 

Alice Ekka, Alice Ekka Ki Kahaniyan (Hindi), Edited by Vandana Tete, 2015.
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Temsula Ao, Laburnum for My Head: Stories (English), Penguin Books India, , 2015
Temsula Ao, These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone (short story collection in English), Penguin Books India, 2005. 
Temsula Ao, The Tombstone in My Garden (memoir in English). 2022
Temsula Ao, Once Upon a Life; Burnt Curry and Bloody rags (English), 2014
Temsula Ao, Aosenla's Story (novel in English), 2017
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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)
Easterine Kire, A Terrible Matriarchy, 2007 (English)
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Hari Ram Meena, Haan, Chaand Mera Hai (Poems in Hindi), 1999
Hari Ram Meena, Subah Ke Intezaar Mein (Poems in Hindi), 2006
Hari Ram Meena, Jallianwala Evam Anya Kavityaein (Poems in Hindi), 2019
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Haldhar Nag, Selected Poems (translated collection of poetry). Black Eagle Books, 2020. 
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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, 2014 (English)
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories. Speaking Tiger Press, 2015 (English)
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, My Father's Garden, 2018 (English) 
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Rose Kerketta, Abasib Murdah, 2010 (Poems in Kharia and Hindi translation)


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

Mamang Dai, The Black Hill. (English) Aleph Book Company, 2014
Mamang Dai, In Search of the Indian Village (English), 2024.
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Ho Durung Hisir (Hindi) (2013). Edited by Dr. Damyanti Sinku. Translations of Ho poems in to Hindi

Mahadev Toppo, Jangal Pahad Ke Path (Poems in Hindi), 2017
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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. 

Gladson Dungdung, Whose Country Is It Anyways? (2013)
Gladson Dungdung, Mission Saranda: A War for Natural Resources in India (2015)
Gladson Dungdung, Adivasis and Their Forest (2019)
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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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