Syllabus (ANTHROPOLOGY)

Course Type: MAJ-16

Semester: 8

Course Code: BANTMAJ16T

Course Title: Tribal Development

(L-P-Tu): 6-0-0

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective: To study the different tribal development programs. To study the tribal policies under state and national programs. To study the development and challenges in execution of policies.

Learning Outcome: To understand the tribal welfare programs, policies, development and challenges associated with it.

BANTMJ16T: TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT 6 CREDITS

(40 MARKS EXAMINATION + 10 MARKS IA)

Unit-I:- Genesis of Tribal Welfare regime • Colonialism and welfare of the tribe • Approaches to tribal development (Colonial and Post-Colonial) 32 • Protective Policies: Constitutional Safeguards

Unit-II:- Tribal Development in Post-Colonial India Administrative and Institutional mechanism; Changing Models (Approaches) of Tribal Development; Community Development Program; Special Multipurpose Tribal Blocks; Development Program; Tribal Development Blocks; Tribal Development Agencies; MADA Pockets; Clusters and Particularly Vulnerable Groups, TSP; Tribal Policies and Welfare programs; Impact of Welfare measures

Unit-III:- Tribes and State policies; Tribes in National development projects • Displacement, Rehabilitation and Resettlement • Tribal resistances in India (Autonomy, Statehood, Development Projects and Land rights)

Unit-IV:- Tribe and forest rights (State Policies, Forest Right Act and thereafter); Land and Resources; Tribal cultures and development, Tribal and Forest : Importance of forest for tribal’s; minor forest produce; collection; trade; marketing; LAMPS; TRIFED; Forest policies; Forest Movement; Forest and Medicine; Forest Rights Act 2006

Unit-V:- Problems of developments; role of Civil societies; migration; displacement; rehabilitation; effects of Mega projects; Experiences of Mahanadi Projects and other contemporary issues.

References

1. Ashok Ranjan Basu, Satish Nijhawan, 1994, Tribal Development Administration in India, Mittal Publications, India

2. R. S. Shukla, 2000, Forestry for Tribal Development, Wheeler Publishing

3. A. Kumar, 2002, Tribal Development in India, Sarup & Sons

4. Vidyut Joshi and Chandrakant Upadhyaya (Eds) 2017 TRIBAL SITUATION IN INDIA: Issues And Development (Second Revised Edition)

5. Mitra Kakali Paul, Development Programmes and Tribals, Publisher: Kalpaz Publications

6. Ahmed Shakeel Five Decades of Planning and Tribal Development, Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi

7. D.N. Thakur D. Thakur, 2009, Tribal Life And Forests Deep and Deep Publications, New Delhi