The education questions of Adivasis are far more contested than anything else in the Indian education system. We can trace this from the representation of Adivasi in politics of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, and so on, to policy making. Apart from that, their representation in our Textbook clearly shows that our Dominant society or the so-called mainstream society needs to educate themselves, that “who are Adivasis?” We look at Adivasi from a social location where we are. Where our idea, thinking, and rationality are deep-rooted with Colonial and Brahmanical notions. Throughout our academic journey, from schools to universities, we look at Adivasi as backward, disadvantaged, illiterate, savage etc. Which are very much stereotypical and derogatory. Such findings indicate that it is the orthodoxy and long-standing social system of the Adivasi that prevents them from being accommodated in the educational institution. This is how our teacher taught us in front of those Adivasi ...
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