Migration, Displacement, And Marginalisation of The Santals in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015)

Abstract

This paper explores migration, displacement, and marginalization of the Santals in Jharkhand. The study highlights their hardships, discrimination, and exploitation regardless of their own land and forest rights. The paper approaches illegal land acquisition, forceful migration, and mainstream domination against the marginalized community. The paper reflects on the contemporary circumstances of the Santal through the study of Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s book The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015). The book signifies an important understanding of the present socio-political context of the Santals. Moreover, the paper is focused on providing the psycho-social impact of land dispossession and rehabilitation with The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act) 1989. The finding of the paper aims at the perspective of peripheral voices of the Santal community against the mainstream inequality and exclusion in tribal writing in English.