Role Of Adivasi In West Singhbhum

The predominated population of West Singhbhum is Adivasis and their society is based on an ecological awareness in which their mode of production links peoples with the biophysical environment (Jal, Jungle and Jameen). They regulate their relationship with natural resources and their relationship with the ecosystem provides them a sense of identity, unity and sense of resistance. They are intrinsically linked to their environment through different strategies, i.e. economic exchange, ceremonies, language and spiritual tradition. Adivasi are the state fleeing and challenging people (Saha, 1986). They have a powerful, distinct socio- cultural group and organization with alternative modes of the production and practices. However, with the passage
This had many adverse consequences on the Ho society. Moreover, despite the colonial laws intended to prevent non-Hos’ entry into the territory, the region was intruded by significant numbers of non-Hos who engaged in commercial activities concerning forest and agricultural produces. Later since the early 1900s, extraction of rich mineral resources, especially iron ore, had begun. After formation of Jharkhand, adaptation of new liberal mineral policy and industrial policy, mining and industrial activities of all types have multiplied with increased potency. During the liberalization period, however, the pace of industrialization, urbanization and alienation of Adivasi land have accelerated unimaginably (Damodaran, 1997; Jewitt, 2008). Despite widespread, localized protest against displacement, environmental degradation and increasing incidents of resistance, number of small-scale mineral extractive industries has multiplied. Consequently, more than 400 memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with domestic and transnational companies to set up large and small scale industries have already been signed by all successive governments (Sundar, 2009). Most of the (MoUs) of iron ores and Limestone mining are in the heart of West Singhbhum. The extractive path has produced a new kind of economic base in which livelihood access of local community is conditioned or prohibited. In this article I argue that developmental intervention through extractive industries degraded ecology and its base relation. These development intervention consisted several political, economic and social interest which are reflected through the discourse, strategy and state policies. The production of nature is greatly mediated by the state; indeed state