Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence

The book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and vividly analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context, due to which the tribes are going through massive upheaval – induced displacement and dis­possession from livelihood. They are unable to advance their existen­tialist interests and fulfil their aspirations, because of which they are taking recourse to extremism and get caught into the battle of state sponsored militia and forces on the one hand, and the extremists on the other. The mechanism of structural violence is embedded in the global capitalism, which has its roots in colonialism and imperialism. Tribal movements of the central-eastern India, inspired by human rights exi­gencies, are up against this imperial project that violates the trajectories of state-led development initiatives for the reason that these move­ments have been brutally suppressed by the military forces.