“Why India Needs Scheduled Tribes to Educate its Future Judges”: Adivasi rights and the the Indian constitution

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The rights of adivasis in the Indian constitution are not an act of benevolence to “mainstream and uplift them” but a recognition that the “mainstream” of Indian society has many streams that flow into it, each of them equally valid. | To read the full essay by Nandini Sundar, click here >>

[…] At the primary level, mutual incomprehension between non-tribal teachers and tribal students hampers the basic education of children. […]

Judging by the continued over-representation of Hindu upper castes in gainful employment in this country, one might well say that the same has come to be fixed in a “highly unreasonable and arbitrary manner” and there is no rhyme or reason to the upper caste Hindu conviction that it is only they who have the natural right to rule over, provide justice to, or teach in this country, and that children of all other castes and religions must be grateful for the education and justice they get.

Nandini Sundar is a Delhi-based sociologist.

Source: “Why India Needs Scheduled Tribes to Educate its Future Judges”, TheWire.in, 28 April 2020
URL: https://thewire.in/rights/why-india-needs-scheduled-tribes-to-educate-future-judges
Date visited: 28 April 2020

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