Negotiating violence: the construction of identity amongst adivasi Christians in Udaipur district, Rajasthan by Kalra, N

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Determinants of nutritional status among scheduled tribe women in India by Sourav Biswas, Chandan Kumar Hansda, Nirmal Singh, Venkata Raja Malla, Anil Kumar Pal

“…Objective: This research aimed to learn how various socio-demographic factors are associated with nutritional status among Indian Scheduled Tribe reproductive women. Moreover, to understand the spatial variation of Nutritional status among Scheduled tribe women in the current scenario.Methods: The study shows the distribution of underweight, normal, overweight and obese Scheduled Tribe women in India from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), including 1,66,172 women from Schedule tribes reproductive age group. …”
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Epidemiological scenario of leprosy in marginalized communities of India: Focus on scheduled tribes by Mukul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh

“…The Scheduled Tribes (STs) are designated among the most disadvantaged social groups in India. …”
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Informal healthcare providers of abortion services among three scheduled tribes of Jharkhand by Ujjwala Gupta

“…Objectives: The study examines the role, relevance, and extent of abortion services provided by IHPs- in Jharkhand among three Scheduled Tribe groups. Materials and Methods: Based on in-depth interviews with 15 IHPs and 42 married women among three Scheduled Tribe groups in three districts of Jharkhand, a qualitative study was conducted. …”
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The enigma of caste atrocities: Do scheduled castes and scheduled tribes face excessive violence in India? by Nihar Sashittal

“…The dominant narrative on caste today asserts that the people belonging to the Scheduled Castes or “Dalits” and Scheduled Tribes or “Tribals” face pervasive and disproportionately more violence. …”
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Assessing engagement of scheduled tribe communities in the functioning of Village Health Sanitation & Nutrition Committees in India by Apoorva Pandey, Harpreet Kaur, Vijay Kumar Karra, R K Mutatkar, A M Khan

“…Despite initiative of the National Rural Health Mission, now National Health Mission (NHM) and various tribal development programmes since India's Independence, disparity in healthcare for Scheduled Tribes (STs) prevails. The constitution of Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNCs) in 2007 by the NHM is a step towards decentralized planning and community engagement to improve health, nutrition and sanitation services. …”
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Coping with Discourses on Minority Populations among the Rang of Far Western Nepal: Nation, Scheduled Tribe, Janajāti, and Indigeneity by Katsuo Nawa

“…Even though the Rang have maintained their socio-cultural unity across the international border, the Rang in India and the Rang in Nepal have had to deal with different minority policies and discourses, coping with various ‘foreign’ ethnonyms as well as meta-level categories like ‘scheduled tribe’, ‘jan(a)jāti’, and ‘indigenous people,’ as most Rangs live as citizens of either one of the two states. …”
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Assessing the coverage of full antenatal care among adolescent mothers from scheduled tribe and scheduled caste communities in India by Aditya Singh, Vineet Kumar, Harpreet Singh, Sourav Chowdhury, Sanjana Sharma

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Manifestations of Academic Untouchability in India: Exclusionary Practices that Subvert Reservations in Admissions in Higher Education by C. Jerome Samraj

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Towards Inclusive Education: A Case Study of IGNOU by S. V. S. Chaudhary, Pankaj Khare, Sanjay Gupta, Suresh Garg

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Elusive identities, enduring demands: the Haatis’ struggle for recognition in the trans-Giri region, Himachal Pradesh by Nilamber Chhetri

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Low birth weight among tribal in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey-4 by Nutan Kumari, Kisan Algur, Praveen Kailash Chokhandre, Pradeep S. Salve

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Divergent Refugee and Tribal Cosmopolitanism in Dharamshala by Stephen Christopher

Subjects: “…Scheduled Tribe Dalit (STD)…”
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Odisha tribal family health survey: methods, tools, and protocols for a comprehensive health assessment survey by Jaya Singh Kshatri, Asit Mansingh, A. K. Kavitha, Haimanti Bhattacharya, Dinesh Bhuyan, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Tanveer Rehman, Aparajita Swain, Debashis Mishra, Indramani Tripathy, Manas R. Mohapatra, Moushumi Nayak, Uttam Kumar Sahoo, Sanghamitra Pati

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Tourism in the Mountains of Central Kerala (South India): at the Crossroads of Attitudes Towards Forest Populations by Lucie Dejouhanet

“…In South India the term “Adivasi” (original inhabitants) designates forest dwellers, defined in the Constitution of India as Scheduled Tribes, who live in the Ghat mountains and their foothills. …”
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When Cracking the JEE is not Enough by Odile Henry, Mathieu Ferry

“…However, some former students, products of this institution that was marked by a very strong social homogeneity when it was first conceived, see the introduction of quotas for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) in 1973, then a new category of reservations for the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in 2008, as a threat to the meritocratic spirit of the IITs. …”
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IN SEARCH OF THE NATIVE: A POSTHUMANIST APPROACH TO COMMUNITY PRACTICE by SUNIL D. SANTHA, KISHORI VIJAY MANDHARE, DHAMMADIP GAJBHIYE

“… This paper is a narrative outcome of our fieldwork experiences with two Adivasi communities (Scheduled Tribes) on the outskirts of Mumbai City in India. …”
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Etymology and Etiologic Tales of Tribes of Wayanad by V.Menon, Indu

“…The district Wayanad of Kerala state, India have the largest tribal population in Kerala with 8 scheduled tribes including Adiyan, Paniyan, Mullukkurman, Kurichyan, Vettakkuruman Wayanad Kadar, Kattuniakkan and Thachaanadan Mooppan. …”
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Understanding Students’ Attitudes Towards Affirmative Action Policy in Higher Education in India by Nidhi S. Sabharwal

“…To mitigate the severe educational horizontal inequalities in India, affirmative action (AA) measures in higher education (HE) have been implemented for socially excluded groups, such as the Scheduled Castes (former “untouchables”), the scheduled tribes (whose status resembles indigenous groups in other countries), and other classes lower in the caste hierarchy. …”
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Disability Divides in India: Evidence from the 2011 Census. by Nandita Saikia, Jayanta Kumar Bora, Domantas Jasilionis, Vladimir M Shkolnikov

“…A regression analysis was carried out to examine the association between disability prevalence and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics across districts of India.The study found that ASDP varies substantially across districts and is higher among women, rural dwellers, and members of scheduled tribes (STs) and scheduled castes (SCs). The regression model showed that the disability rate in districts rises with increasing proportions of the population who are urban dwellers, aged 65 or older, members of STs, and living in dilapidated housing; and that the disability prevalence decreases with increasing proportions of the female population who are literate, and of the general population who are working and have access to safe drinking water.As the burden of disability falls disproportionately across geographic regions and socioeconomic groups, public health policies in India should take this variation into account. …”
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