On the Future of Indigenous Traditions - Munin

2.3.1. Division of Role and Responsibilities of leaders for Governance among
Adivasis according to their customary laws ........................................................34
2.3.2. Customary System in relation to land as a resource management.............37
2.3.3. Powers of the customary law .....................................................................38
2.4 Customary Law in Oral Tradition and the ethnographical texts....................39
2.5 Background of Customary law / systems of Adivasis in Jharkhand: what is
unique about it............................................................................................................40
2.6 Adivasis and non-Adivasis in Contemporary Jharkhand................................43
2.7 Jharkhand: prolonged non-formation of states becomes a reason for further
exploitation and neglect.............................................................................................46
2.7.1. Development & Displacement: What happens to the Adivasis.................48
2.7.2. Case illustration: Peraj East Open Cast mining project and displacement 50
2.8 Which direction is the development politics leading the Adivasis into?.........55
CHAPTER THREE: Adivasi Politics ......................................................................57
3.1. Adivasi organisation as a political association .................................................57
3.2. The notion of political association of the Adivasis & its place in the nation
and state legislations ..................................................................................................58
3.2.1. The Adivasis notion of political association before and during colonialism.60
3.2.2. Historical Benchmarks...................................................................................62
3.3. The state’s political notion and Adivasi developments after India’s
independence ..............................................................................................................64
3.4. Rules & laws specific to Jharkhand pertaining to the powers of the
customary structure vs. Panchayti Raj – the state system.....................................67
3.5. The “Tribe” /Adivasi identity in conflict with the State?................................71
CHAPTER FOUR: The customary system in the present day scenario ..............80
4.1. The customary system: a legal and a political issue.........................................80
4.2. What does the customary system have to do with the Adivasi identity today?
Also the question of modern vs. traditional.............................................................82
4.3. The Customary law system operational in the south of Jharkhand ..............85
4.4. The case illustration of Shivcharan Parya, the Manki of Charai Pir:................86
4.5. Case illustrations of how the Manki’s court work............................................91
4.5.1 The case of Soma Deogam vs. Chokro Deogam.........................................91
4.5.2 The case of Jambo Kui vs. Jogesh Bodra ...................................................92
4.6. Analysis.............................................................................................................93
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