The Adivasis form Nearly 8 Per Cent of The Indian Population and Live in Most States. Despite Being One of The Oldest Constituents of The Indian Population, Barring A Few States in The Northeast, They Are in A Minority in The Rest. Persistent Problems Faced By Themlike Land Alienation, indebtedness, Vanishing Minor forest Products From Government forests and Displacement From Their ancestral Landshave Led To Their Impoverishment. The Panchayats Extension To The Scheduled Areas Act Pesa and The forest Rights Act Fra, Enacted By The Previous Governments, Were Decisive Steps Towards The Empowerment of The Adivasis.however, At Present, The Implementation of These Provisions Has Taken A Back Seat. The Seventh Volume of The Rethinking India Series, in Collaboration With The Samruddha Bharat Foundation, Presents The Views of The Adivasis and The Denotified Communities On The Process of Development and Its Clash With Their Rights.this Volume Brings Together The Discussion of Several issues From The Adivasi Perspective, Which is Quite Different From What is Done in anthropology and Ethnography. Product Description about The Author abhay Flavian Xaxa Was A Fiery Adivasi intellectual and Activist Who Graduated in Sociology and Law, and Acquired A Doctoral Degree in Sociology From Jawaharlal Nehru University. xaxa Took Up Research and Activism, Worked Across Social Movements, Research institutions and Nonprofit Organizations On Developmentinduced Displacement, Distress Migration, Bonded Labour and Fair Wages for forest Workers. in 2007, He Became The First Adivasi Student From Chhattisgarh To Win The ford Foundations international Fellowship for Postgraduate Study At The University of Sussex. after Returning From Sussex, Xaxa initially Worked As A Research Fellow At The Indian institute of Dalit Studies. From 2012 Onwards, Till His Untimely Death in 2019, He Worked As Programme Coordinator With The National Campaign On Dalit Human Rights.