Birsa Munda's resistance held great importance and inspired subsequent generations of Adivasi leaders to fight for the separate statehood of Jharkhand. However, he remained a relatively obscure figure in the national consciousness until the early decades of independence.
With just days left for the first phase of polling in Jharkhand’s hotly contested Assembly elections, religious and ethnic tensions, while not universal, are increasingly prevalent.
Ram navami has frequently been associated with communal tensions in the region, and incidents of religious clashes have fuelled religious polarisation, often benefiting the BJP's political agenda
The TV news presentation of Biparjoy is just an instance of the larger pathology ailing the news media in India. Most of the news presentations are generally characterised by a potent concoction of sensationalism and gimmickry.
Many of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters embrace the notion that he is engaged in a superior mission that transcends the realm of democratic politics. Fittingly, he was the chief protagonist of the spectacle that marked the house-warming of the Parliament, a new parliament for a ‘New India’ whose founding father is Modi himself.
In a country with a deep-rooted hierarchy that is founded on ascribed identities, education has been seen as one of the few means of acquiring social mobility by marginalized groups. However, there is a flip side to this story where in the changing socio-economic and political terrain of post-colonial India, the dominant groups have constantly tried to establish and reproduce their ascendancy by primarily controlling the gates of the educational institutions of excellence.
Recently there has been a series of violent incidents in villages in the Narayanpur and Kondagoan districts related to issues of forced conversion and reconversion creating an environment of tension and mistrust.
The assertion of an Adivasi identity has stonewalled the Sangh Parivar’s project in Jharkhand to incorporate Adivasis into the larger Hindu fold
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