Mahatma Gandhi and Tribal Development

Abstract

As we face intractable challenges of ever-increasing violence, growing inequalities, poverty, diseases and climate change all of which raise serious questions on our future existence, we once again turn to Mahatma Gandhi, his ideas and practices to face these adversities. The article engages with one such issue of tribes and the development initiatives of the state with ideas drawn from Gandhian economics and his model of social construction.

Keywords

Tribal development and transformations situating tribes in Gandhian approach Gandhian economic constructive programmes work and livelihood reinterpreting the Gandhian approach

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