1st Edition
At the Crossroads of Rights Forest Struggles and Human Rights in Postcolonial India
Preface
Rahul Ranjan
Introduction – Echoes from the woods: at the crossroads of forest struggles and human rights in postcolonial India
Rahul Ranjan and Prakash Kashwan
1. State, forest and Adivasis at crossroads: Netarhat field firing range and contestations over rights
Anjana Singh
2. Our rights are carved in stone: the case of the Pathalgadi movement in Simdega, Jharkhand
Eva Davidsdottir
3. Excluded Areas as the limit of the political: the murky boundaries of Scheduled Areas in India
Shaunna Rodrigues
4. Our land is banked: forest rights, consent and the invention of a legal exception as land banks
Arpitha Kodiveri
5. (Un)Doing rights: Adivasi participation in governance discourses in an area of civil unrest in India
Gunjan Wadhwa
6. The UN declaration on the rights of peasants, national policies, and forestland rights of India’s Adivasis
Prakash Kashwan, Ishan Kukreti and Rahul Ranjan
Biography
Rahul Ranjan is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He is working on the Riverine Rights project funded by the Research Council of Norway. Prior to this, he worked as the Social Media Coordinator at the Human Rights Research Network in London. He was awarded his PhD in 2020 from the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.
