Indigenous Traditional Administrative Systems

Adivasi means the First People. This is how theindigenous peoples of Indian peninsula prefer to callthemselves. This book investigates into some of theimportant historical facts of the Adivasis incentral-east India - Jharkhand. It is by going intothe primary and secondary sources to validate theimportant role played by the customary institutionsof Adivasis' in their historical continuity. Therelevance of this institutions' conceptualorganization - part of the indigenous knowledge, inthe course of development of the state, heredemonstrates it as a module in the discourse ofsocial sciences. This book also examines the conflictbetween the communitarian rights in which theseinstitutions are already based on, and the Indianstate's embedded-ness in a legal framework based onthe concept of individual rights, ownership etc. Mostsignificantly, this study attempts to assert therelevance of the Adivasi's geo-cultural-politicalinstitutions in the present context of the politicsof the Indian state.