Jagannath Ambagudia is Dean, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2020–), and Associate Professor at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2014–), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India. He was also the Chairperson, Unit for Research and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India (2016–2020). Previously, he taught at the Department of Political Science, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi (2009–2014); National Law School of India University, Bangalore, Karnataka (2008–2009); and ARSD College, University of Delhi (2006–2008). He obtained MA, M. Phil. and Ph. D. in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Adivasis, Migrants and the State in India (Routledge, 2019). His area of interest lies on issues of Adivasi society, social exclusion and inclusion, development and deprivation, marginalisation, preferential treatment, distributive justice and community conflict. He is currently working on the role of tribal MPs in Indian Parliament within the broader relationship between scheduled tribes and democracy in India. Virginius Xaxa is currently visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi. Prior to joining IHD, he was Professor of Eminence and Bharat Ratna Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Chair at Tezpur University (2016–2018). He was also Professor and Deputy Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus (2011–2016). He taught Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (1990–2011), and North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (1978–1990). He obtained MA in Sociology from Pune University and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He is the author of Economic Dualism and Structure of Class: A Study in Plantation and Peasant Settings in North Bengal (Cosmo, 1997) and State, Society and Tribes: Issues in Post-Colonial India (Pearson, 2008), co-author of Tea Plantation Labour in India (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1996) and co-editor of Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion: Development and Deprivation of Adivasis in India (OUP, 2012), Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood: Issues and Challenges of Transformation (Palgrave, 2017) and Employment and Labour Market in North-East India: Interrogating Structural Changes (Routledge, 2019). He was also the Chairman of the High Level Committee on Socio-Economic, Health and Educational Status of Tribal Communities of India, Government of India (2014).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Situating Tribal Politics in India - Jagannath Ambagudia and Virginius XaxaSECTION I Genealogy of Tribal Politics in IndiaTribal Politics in India: From Movement to Institutionalism - Virginius XaxaSECTION II Tribal Politics at the National LevelScheduled Tribes, Reserved Constituencies and Political Reservation in India - Jagannath AmbagudiaDemocracy’s Ghettos: Adivasi Leadership in India - Valerian RodriguesIndigenous Peoples and Electoral Politics in India: An Experience of Incompatibility - Samar Bosu MullickGender and Tribal Politics in India - Sasmita MohantyAdivasis, Naxalites and Indian Democracy - Ramachandra GuhaAdivasi Issues and Election Manifestos of National Political Parties - Kamal Nayan ChoubeyPolitical Representation and Policy-Making: Role of Tribal MPs in Indian - Parliament Rupak KumarSECTION III Tribal Politics at the State LevelPolitical Accommodation and Tribal Electoral Politics in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana - Venkatesh VadityaDemocracy with a Difference: Tribal Politics in Arunachal Pradesh - Nani BathTribal Politics in Assam: 1933-1947 - Suryasikha PathakTransitional Political Environment: Bodos and Tribal Politics in Assam - Himani RamchiaryTribes and Electoral Politics in Chhattisgarh: Alternative Sites of Assertion - Bipin Jojo and H. BeckTribal Politics in Gujarat - N. Rajaram and Ashvin VasavaTribal Politics in Himachal Pradesh: Issues and Concerns - Mini Pathak DograGujjars and Tribal Politics in Jammu and Kashmir - Subeno KithanTribal Identity and Governance in State Politics of Jharkhand - Sujit KumarPolitical Intersectionality and Tribal Politics in Karnataka - Pradeep Ramvath J.Political Articulations of Adivasis in Kerala - Abhilash T.Emerging Pattern of Tribal Politics in Madhya Pradesh - Sudha PaiTribal Politics in Maharashtra - Pandurang BhoyeThe Politics of Tribal Representation in Manipur - Joseph RiameiKhasi Political Reality and the Struggle for Statehood: History, Context and Political Processes - Bodhi S. R.Tribal Politics and New Electoral Directions in Meghalaya - Moses KharbithaiTribal Politics and Non-State Actors in Mizoram - P. LalpekhluiThe Debris of Democracy in Nagaland - Jelle J. P. WoutersTribes and Electoral Politics in Odisha - Jagannath AmbagudiaPolitics of Tribalisation and Contested Space in Sikkim - Tikendra K. Chhettry and Sanghamitra ChoudhuryTribal Politics in Tripura: A Spatial Perspective - R. K. DebbarmaRevisiting Tribal Discourse in Uttar Pradesh - A. K. VermaTribal Politics in West Bengal: Quest for Identity and Recognition - Nilamber ChhetriIndex

Jagannath Ambagudia is Dean, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2020–), and Associate Professor at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2014–), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India. He was also the Chairperson, Unit for Research and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India (2016–2020). Previously, he taught at the Department of Political Science, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi (2009–2014); National Law School of India University, Bangalore, Karnataka (2008–2009); and ARSD College, University of Delhi (2006–2008). He obtained MA, M. Phil. and Ph. D. in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Adivasis, Migrants and the State in India (Routledge, 2019). His area of interest lies on issues of Adivasi society, social exclusion and inclusion, development and deprivation, marginalisation, preferential treatment, distributive justice and community conflict. He is currently working on the role of tribal MPs in Indian Parliament within the broader relationship between scheduled tribes and democracy in India. Virginius Xaxa is currently visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi. Prior to joining IHD, he was Professor of Eminence and Bharat Ratna Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Chair at Tezpur University (2016–2018). He was also Professor and Deputy Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus (2011–2016). He taught Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (1990–2011), and North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (1978–1990). He obtained MA in Sociology from Pune University and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He is the author of Economic Dualism and Structure of Class: A Study in Plantation and Peasant Settings in North Bengal (Cosmo, 1997) and State, Society and Tribes: Issues in Post-Colonial India (Pearson, 2008), co-author of Tea Plantation Labour in India (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1996) and co-editor of Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion: Development and Deprivation of Adivasis in India (OUP, 2012), Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood: Issues and Challenges of Transformation (Palgrave, 2017) and Employment and Labour Market in North-East India: Interrogating Structural Changes (Routledge, 2019). He was also the Chairman of the High Level Committee on Socio-Economic, Health and Educational Status of Tribal Communities of India, Government of India (2014).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Situating Tribal Politics in India - Jagannath Ambagudia and Virginius XaxaSECTION I Genealogy of Tribal Politics in IndiaTribal Politics in India: From Movement to Institutionalism - Virginius XaxaSECTION II Tribal Politics at the National LevelScheduled Tribes, Reserved Constituencies and Political Reservation in India - Jagannath AmbagudiaDemocracy’s Ghettos: Adivasi Leadership in India - Valerian RodriguesIndigenous Peoples and Electoral Politics in India: An Experience of Incompatibility - Samar Bosu MullickGender and Tribal Politics in India - Sasmita MohantyAdivasis, Naxalites and Indian Democracy - Ramachandra GuhaAdivasi Issues and Election Manifestos of National Political Parties - Kamal Nayan ChoubeyPolitical Representation and Policy-Making: Role of Tribal MPs in Indian - Parliament Rupak KumarSECTION III Tribal Politics at the State LevelPolitical Accommodation and Tribal Electoral Politics in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana - Venkatesh VadityaDemocracy with a Difference: Tribal Politics in Arunachal Pradesh - Nani BathTribal Politics in Assam: 1933-1947 - Suryasikha PathakTransitional Political Environment: Bodos and Tribal Politics in Assam - Himani RamchiaryTribes and Electoral Politics in Chhattisgarh: Alternative Sites of Assertion - Bipin Jojo and H. BeckTribal Politics in Gujarat - N. Rajaram and Ashvin VasavaTribal Politics in Himachal Pradesh: Issues and Concerns - Mini Pathak DograGujjars and Tribal Politics in Jammu and Kashmir - Subeno KithanTribal Identity and Governance in State Politics of Jharkhand - Sujit KumarPolitical Intersectionality and Tribal Politics in Karnataka - Pradeep Ramvath J.Political Articulations of Adivasis in Kerala - Abhilash T.Emerging Pattern of Tribal Politics in Madhya Pradesh - Sudha PaiTribal Politics in Maharashtra - Pandurang BhoyeThe Politics of Tribal Representation in Manipur - Joseph RiameiKhasi Political Reality and the Struggle for Statehood: History, Context and Political Processes - Bodhi S. R.Tribal Politics and New Electoral Directions in Meghalaya - Moses KharbithaiTribal Politics and Non-State Actors in Mizoram - P. LalpekhluiThe Debris of Democracy in Nagaland - Jelle J. P. WoutersTribes and Electoral Politics in Odisha - Jagannath AmbagudiaPolitics of Tribalisation and Contested Space in Sikkim - Tikendra K. Chhettry and Sanghamitra ChoudhuryTribal Politics in Tripura: A Spatial Perspective - R. K. DebbarmaRevisiting Tribal Discourse in Uttar Pradesh - A. K. VermaTribal Politics in West Bengal: Quest for Identity and Recognition - Nilamber ChhetriIndex

Jagannath Ambagudia is Dean, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2020–), and Associate Professor at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2014–), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India. He was also the Chairperson, Unit for Research and Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India (2016–2020). Previously, he taught at the Department of Political Science, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi (2009–2014); National Law School of India University, Bangalore, Karnataka (2008–2009); and ARSD College, University of Delhi (2006–2008). He obtained MA, M. Phil. and Ph. D. in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Adivasis, Migrants and the State in India (Routledge, 2019). His area of interest lies on issues of Adivasi society, social exclusion and inclusion, development and deprivation, marginalisation, preferential treatment, distributive justice and community conflict. He is currently working on the role of tribal MPs in Indian Parliament within the broader relationship between scheduled tribes and democracy in India. Virginius Xaxa is currently visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi. Prior to joining IHD, he was Professor of Eminence and Bharat Ratna Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Chair at Tezpur University (2016–2018). He was also Professor and Deputy Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus (2011–2016). He taught Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (1990–2011), and North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (1978–1990). He obtained MA in Sociology from Pune University and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He is the author of Economic Dualism and Structure of Class: A Study in Plantation and Peasant Settings in North Bengal (Cosmo, 1997) and State, Society and Tribes: Issues in Post-Colonial India (Pearson, 2008), co-author of Tea Plantation Labour in India (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1996) and co-editor of Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion: Development and Deprivation of Adivasis in India (OUP, 2012), Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood: Issues and Challenges of Transformation (Palgrave, 2017) and Employment and Labour Market in North-East India: Interrogating Structural Changes (Routledge, 2019). He was also the Chairman of the High Level Committee on Socio-Economic, Health and Educational Status of Tribal Communities of India, Government of India (2014).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Situating Tribal Politics in India - Jagannath Ambagudia and Virginius XaxaSECTION I Genealogy of Tribal Politics in IndiaTribal Politics in India: From Movement to Institutionalism - Virginius XaxaSECTION II Tribal Politics at the National LevelScheduled Tribes, Reserved Constituencies and Political Reservation in India - Jagannath AmbagudiaDemocracy’s Ghettos: Adivasi Leadership in India - Valerian RodriguesIndigenous Peoples and Electoral Politics in India: An Experience of Incompatibility - Samar Bosu MullickGender and Tribal Politics in India - Sasmita MohantyAdivasis, Naxalites and Indian Democracy - Ramachandra GuhaAdivasi Issues and Election Manifestos of National Political Parties - Kamal Nayan ChoubeyPolitical Representation and Policy-Making: Role of Tribal MPs in Indian - Parliament Rupak KumarSECTION III Tribal Politics at the State LevelPolitical Accommodation and Tribal Electoral Politics in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana - Venkatesh VadityaDemocracy with a Difference: Tribal Politics in Arunachal Pradesh - Nani BathTribal Politics in Assam: 1933-1947 - Suryasikha PathakTransitional Political Environment: Bodos and Tribal Politics in Assam - Himani RamchiaryTribes and Electoral Politics in Chhattisgarh: Alternative Sites of Assertion - Bipin Jojo and H. BeckTribal Politics in Gujarat - N. Rajaram and Ashvin VasavaTribal Politics in Himachal Pradesh: Issues and Concerns - Mini Pathak DograGujjars and Tribal Politics in Jammu and Kashmir - Subeno KithanTribal Identity and Governance in State Politics of Jharkhand - Sujit KumarPolitical Intersectionality and Tribal Politics in Karnataka - Pradeep Ramvath J.Political Articulations of Adivasis in Kerala - Abhilash T.Emerging Pattern of Tribal Politics in Madhya Pradesh - Sudha PaiTribal Politics in Maharashtra - Pandurang BhoyeThe Politics of Tribal Representation in Manipur - Joseph RiameiKhasi Political Reality and the Struggle for Statehood: History, Context and Political Processes - Bodhi S. R.Tribal Politics and New Electoral Directions in Meghalaya - Moses KharbithaiTribal Politics and Non-State Actors in Mizoram - P. LalpekhluiThe Debris of Democracy in Nagaland - Jelle J. P. WoutersTribes and Electoral Politics in Odisha - Jagannath AmbagudiaPolitics of Tribalisation and Contested Space in Sikkim - Tikendra K. Chhettry and Sanghamitra ChoudhuryTribal Politics in Tripura: A Spatial Perspective - R. K. DebbarmaRevisiting Tribal Discourse in Uttar Pradesh - A. K. VermaTribal Politics in West Bengal: Quest for Identity and Recognition - Nilamber ChhetriIndex