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Displacement and Dispossession: Big dams, anti-Dam Activism, labor displacement.

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Texts and writers engaging with issues of displacement and dispossession of Adivasis from their land.

One major theme are big dams, which have displaced millions of Adivasi people over more than 75 years.

Increasingly, Adivasi writers are also deeply concerned about displacement of Adivasis seeking out economic opportunity as laborers in other Indian states. Many laborers migrating to other parts of India in this way are exploited; they are also at risk of cultural and linguistic dispersion. (See Walter Bhengra Tarun's story, "Sangi," for an example of this.)

Contents of this tag:

  1. Rose Kerketta, "Fixed Deposit" (short story in translation)
  2. Gladson Dungdung (1980- ): Author Profile
  3. Haldhar Nag, "Regard for Soil" (poem in translation)
  4. Walter Bhengra 'Tarun', "Sangi" (translated short story)
  5. Francisca Kujur, "Just Think, Hira" (translated from Hindi)
  6. Sushma Asur, "How Many Days?" (poem translated from Hindi)
  7. Rose Kerketta, "I Will Not Go To the Kindgom of Bhutan" (translated poem; 2019)
  8. Jacinta Kerketta, "Can You Return?" (translated poem; 2019)