Transformation of Tribal Hinterlands into Urban Spaces in India’s Fifth and Sixth Schedule Areas: Emerging Issues and Contestations

Abstract

Extensive literature exists on the way tribal land has been acquired for industrial, irrigation, power and mining projects. However, there is limited research on the procurement of land in the context of urban development which has been spreading in tribal areas. This article explores the modalities and mechanisms through which land is being procured in the context of urban development, specifically with reference to the emerging capital townships of Greater Ranchi and the New Shillong Township which fall in the Fifth and Sixth Schedule areas of the Indian Constitution. Using a comparative perspective, this study examines the implications of such development on affected people especially in the context of their constitutional and legal rights, entitlements, their modes of governance and the way they have been articulating and addressing these issues.

Keywords

Tribes urban development constitutional rights Fifth Schedule Sixth Schedule

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