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Analyse the trilogy between environmental movement, development and tribal identity.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

The three terms meet on one piece of ground. India's coal, bauxite and iron ore lie disproportionately beneath the forested Fifth Schedule tracts where adivasis live, so every extraction decision is at once economic, ecological and ethnic — three relations best taken pair by pair before they are seen to fuse.

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  • Development and tribal identity
  • Development and environment
  • Environment and tribal identity
  • The limits of the identity frame
  • Conclusion

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