Marginalization: a narrative of the Adivasi community in Assam

"This paper is about north east India, a region that has emerged through a difficult journey of struggles, conflicts, acrimony, with little support from the Centre and a population that kept to itself, holding its affinity to its own land-based practices and cultural norms...This paper will factor the lives of Adivasis, particularly the women, who lived andstill live lives of deprivation, discrimination (both within their community as well as the state)and extreme vulnerabilities. It is the story of marginalization.