Human Rights and Realities of Tribals’ Lives in India: A Perfect Storm

Abstract

Tribal community in India has been most vulnerable community in the in equal, domination and exploitation ridden society. They are on the breadline of their socioeconomic and political rights. Even after centuries, the unchanged condition of Tribal communities is leading in India. The violation of fundamental human rights and the state brutality has been perpetrated on them, particularly on tribal women. Tribal communities have faced isolation and social discrimination like that of Dalits from the mainstream society. Understanding of current Tribal societies need a basic respect to the historical processes, which have determined the course of consecutive changes in ideological, political, economic and socio cultural life of the Tribal communities. The Indian democratic state accords several statutes in the constitution where the rights of Tribal communities are protected and social justice is determined for. However, the democratic experiment has not been successful in this respect. Therefore, there is a surge of Tribal movements in the country for their rights. All tribal people of India have a thing in common-they all share a history of injustice. The present paper explores within the larger framework of human rights in general and how tribal rights violated in particular, in India.