Kerala Development and the Attapadi Adivasi

Title

Kerala Development and the Attapadi Adivasi

Creator

George A.

Description

The development experience of the state of Kerala in southwest India is based generally on democratic principles of equality and popular participation. This article focuses on the lives of the Adivasi1 people of Attapadi in the Palakkad district of Kerala. It argues that the state of Kerala largely treats the Adivasis as secondary citizens and ignores their right to be socially and economically empowered. The state of Kerala takes pride in its positive ranking on human development and social progress indexes but has not done enough to stop Adivasi infants from dying of malnutrition, and Adivasis demands for land rights have been disregarded. As a result, they are forced to live obscure lives in poverty and generally unable to influence their sociopolitical sphere. 2023 The Author(s).

Source

Journal of Developing Societies, Vol-39, No. 2, pp. 135-152.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Subject

Adivasi; Attapadi; development; infant deaths; Kerala; land alienation

Coverage

George A., Department of Sociology and Social Work, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 0169796X

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X231158871

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