Tribal Women in Central India: Issues and Challenges

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Jayanta Kumar Behera. Section I: Status of Tribal Girls and Women: 2. Indigenous knowledge and anthropology/K K N. Sharma and Harshdeep Singh Dhanjal. 3. Socio-economic condition of tribal women in Central India/A K Upadhyay, S Kumar and Rajesh Kumar. 4. Socio-economic status of agriculture women labour of Bastar/Anand Murti Mishra and Manoj Kumar Nag. 5. The socio-economic, political and cultural status of tribal women in Central India: Perspective of human rights/Chakali Bramhayya. 6. The socio-economic, cultural and educational portrayal of tribal girls and women in literature: a study of some novels/Sunayana. Section II: Challenges of empowerment: 6. Challenges of socio-economic, cultural, educational and health status of tribal women’s in India/Smita Pullarwar. 8. Maternal healthcare among tribals/Naresh Kumar Sonkar and K K Srivastava. 9. Educational status of tribal women in various districts of Odisha: issues and challenges/B Patra. 10. Student’s perceptions of English as an important tool of empowerment for employability among tribal women of central India/Deepa Moni Boruah. 11. Educational status and skill enhancement in tribal women in India/Jai Pratap Singh. Section III: Constitutional and State Initiatives: 12. Status of land rights and livelihood of the tribal Bhuiyan women in Odisha/Nilakantha Panigrahi. 13. Status of tribal women: example from India/S K Kolay. 14. Law, gender and equality: a discursive analysis of PCPNDT Act in Madhya Pradesh/Tapan R. Mohanty. 15. Issues and challenges of tribal reservation in India: reflections on Pahari’s enlistment for scheduled tribe reservation in J & K (India)/A Saxena and V L Saxena. 16. Women empowerment and their status in a Gond society: a case study of Lalpur village in Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh/D V Prasad. Section IV: Crime Against Tribal Girls and Women: 17. Trafficking of tribal women and girls in Odisha: causal dimensions and social implications/R K Mohanty. 18. Social-cultural practice of witchcraft in Jharkhand/Gaya Pandey. 19. Diversity of disparity: Horns of dilemma/Payal Sen and Joystu Dutta. 20. Tattoos of Baiga women: a social, cultural and spiritual reflection/M P Goswami. Section V: Role of Civil Society and Development Issues: 21. Tribal women and work: change and development/Vinita Singh. 22. Gender, education and tribal development: status issues and the way forward/ B P Singh. 23. Livelihood opportunities for forest dependent tribal women of Odisha: as case study on Similipal Biosphere Reserve/C R Kumar. 24. A history of misplaced development milestones: a case of adivasi women of central India/Rajat Shubhro Mukherjee.