Abstract
Over a tenth of India’s land mass in 14 states are notified under the Fifth and Sixth Schedules of the Indian Constitution. Tracing the genealogy of the idea of scheduling in the late colonial period (1918–1950), this essay presents a brief survey of the deliberations on the ‘tribal question’ in British India. Focusing mainly on the debates in the administrative realm, it offers a top-down analysis of major developments vis-à-vis the discourse on aboriginal and hill tribes as the category itself transitioned into what is now called ‘Scheduled Tribes’.
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Tewari, Saagar
(2024)
"A Brief History of the Scheduling Discourse in Late-Colonial India (1918–1950),"
National Law School Journal: Vol. 18:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55496/QWIL8726
Available at:
https://repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj/vol18/iss2/3
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.55496/QWIL8726