Question

how life of adivasi had changed in last 50 year

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

life of adivasi had changed in last 50 year

forests  were absolutely crucial to the development of all empires

and settled civilisations in India. Metal ores like iron and

copper, and gold and silver, coal and diamonds, invaluable

timber, most medicinal herbs and animal products (wax,

lac, honey) and animals themselves (elephants, the mainstay

of imperial armies), all came from the forests. In addition,

the continuation of life depended heavily on forests, that

help recharge many of India’s rivers and, as is becoming

clearer now, crucial to the availability and quality of ourair and water. Forests covered the major part of our country

till the nineteenth century and the Adivasis had a deep

knowledge of, access to, as well as control over most of these

vast tracts at least till the middle of the nineteenth century.

This meant that they were not ruled by large states and

empires. Instead, often empires heavily depended on

Adivasis for the crucial access to forest resources.

This is radically contrary to our image of Adivasis today as

somewhat marginal and powerless communities. In the precolonial

world, they were traditionally ranged huntergatherers

and nomads and lived by shifting agriculture and

also cultivating in one place. Although these remain, for

the past 200 years Adivasis have been increasingly forced –

through economic changes, forest policies and political

force applied by the State and private industry – to migrate

to lives as workers in plantations, at construction sites, in

industries and as domestic workers. For the first time in

history, they do not control or have much direct access to

the forest territories.