Introduction: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Study of Social Movements in Rural India - Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
Section I: Transcending Nature/Culture
1:Democratic Struggles in the Bhil Heartland: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Scenarios - Alf Gunvald Nilsen
2:Into the Grid: Hydropower and Subaltern Politics in Northeast India - Bengt G. Karlsson
3:Everyday Forest Rights: Property, Community and the State in Kalahandi District- Matthew B. Shutzer
Space for Social Action in the Politics of Nature: Commentary by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Section II: Structures and Subjectivities
4:Manju Devi's Martyrdom: Marxist-Leninist Politics and the Rural Poor in Bihar - Nicolas Jaoul
5:Managing 'Communities' of Resistance: Negotiating Caste and Class in an Anti-land Acquisition Movement in West Bengal - Kenneth Bo Nielsen
5:The Emergence of Adivasi Political Subjectivity in Late Socialist Kerala - Luisa Steur
Structures and subjectivities: Commentary by Subir Sinha
Section III: Power, Knowledge, Action
6:Negotiating Knowledge and Power in Indigenous Movements and Development Plans - Felix Padel
7:Being Indigenous in Adivasi India; Or How to Decolonize the Postcolonial Imagination - Madhuri Karak
8:'Word Traps' and the Drafting of India's Forest Rights Act - Anand Vaidya
9:Drawing on Experiences from the Forests: The Limits and Possibilities of Resource Struggles in India Today - Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Reflections of a (western) Anthropological Elder: Commentary by Judith Whitehead
Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors