HUMAN RIGHTS AND TRIBAL JUSTICE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Adivasi -native people, indigenous people were condescendingly called Tribals' by the colonial masters, while the anthropologists made lucrative academic carriers by objectifying them through their studies, as if they are a different species to be showcased in the museums. There was decimation in the name of the white man's burden, arrogantly portrayed as the civilizing mission of the imperialist west. Human beings without private property or power hierarchies had existed for millennia, time immemorial. We started our journey from the caves, hunting, gathering, and struggling to save ourselves from the forces of nature. We were originally a part of the nature, coexisting with it in a mutually liberating symphony- without polluting and devastating the environment like the present day multi-national corporations, in their relentless drive for profit maximization and commodification.