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Discuss development-induced displacement in the context of tribal uprising in India. Substantiate your answer with any one detailed illustration from India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Displacement in tribal India is not simply impoverishment; it is the breach of a constitutional promise. The Fifth Schedule undertook to hold Scheduled Areas under a protective regime, and every dam, mine and corridor built there is experienced as that undertaking withdrawn. Hence dispossession here produces revolt rather than quiet exit.

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  • Why the burden falls on tribes
  • Why displacement here becomes uprising
  • Illustration: Niyamgiri and the Dongria Kondh
  • The extremism dimension
  • Conclusion

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