A statistics from the Patience the institute marked the tiny percentages of the faculty of Adivasi and planned tribe (ST) in higher educational institutions in West Bengal. With around 6% of the planned stem population in the state, it is important to raise questions about their legitimate representation. Jadavpur University has a planned representation of around 2.51%, while the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, has no faculty of the planned tribe. Due to Karam Puja on September 3, the government of West Bengal had declared a state holiday. While it is important to honor Karam Puja, it is of the utmost importance to work on your development and inclusion.
Boycott the Jangal Mahal Utsav
The government of Westbengalen organized them Jangal Mahal Utsav In the past ten years. This year the celebrations that aim to preserve the handicrafts of tribal communities were with a boycott. The call for a boycott was declared by a press conference of the West Bengalen -Stamme -Stammes Association (WStwa). The boycott had derived from a disregard for the essential development of the communities. The Prime Minister, Mamata Banerjee, had secured. “Development”For the Jangal Mahal region, but the protests and boycotts indicate something else. The state government and its opposition are changing guiltwhile the communities fall back.
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Educational and employment opportunities have always remained a problem, but the lack of basic amenities has led to this Malnutrition In the areas of Jangal Mahal. Shabar villages in Bengal Jangal Mahal are missing basic educational institutions. A report by the wire brought about how the villages lack access to schools. The schools do not make neglect and lack of teachers all the more functional. The bad state of affairs suggests a revision of the system that breeds this systemic inequality.
Discrimination in academic circles and retaliation against Adivasi reservation
In interview With the caravan, Professor Maroona Murmu thought about discrimination, which takes place in “liberal” university spaces. As a deputy professor of history at Jadavpur University, her merit of online roles was questioned when she expressed her opinion that the life of the students during the Covid-19 was more important than personal exams. Your opinion led to anti-reservation posts, comments and hashtags across social media. The story not only disperses the idea that West Bengal is gently, but also underlines the settings against reservation in university rooms. She announced how the conception of “earnings” had to be visited again. A widespread resentment against box -based reservation was reflected in student interviews. The reservation policy prescribed by the government questioned academic demography, which mainly consisted of upper caste, middle class and male populations.
In interview With the caravan, Professor Maroona Murmu thought about discrimination, which takes place in “liberal” university spaces. As a deputy professor of history at Jadavpur University, her merit of online roles was questioned when she expressed her opinion that the life of the students during the Covid-19 was more important than personal exams. Your opinion led to anti-reservation posts, comments and hashtags across social media. The story not only disperses the idea that West Bengal is gently, but also underlines the settings against reservation in university rooms.
The challenge for the hegemony was not well received. A Research The paper published in 2022 showed how reservations for girls (14%) were warmly welcomed, but the same warmth was not extended to the SC/ST/OBC community. When feminism in India turned a pedagogue in Kolkata, Dr. Sohini Saha her observations while teaching “Writing the adivasi“By Prathama Banerjee. She told how the students who taught her kept a” sympathetic-progressive outlook “, but saw adivasis as homogeneous,” other “and egalitarian people. She taught Prathama Banerjee’s text to challenge the idea, but she found that the students. Move beyond the homogenization of the adivasi community and do not put it in predefined boxes.
The fights of the adivasi students and the wrong representation of adivasia
A student who followed her end in Kolkata told her experiences. She said: “After school I was very concerned about how I would adapt to students from the privileged caste and teaching. During my university orientation, I kept looking for adivasi students in my class and tried to read the faces and characteristics of people, and hoped to find someone like me. Disappointment.”
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A Ethnographic report Published by the People’s Archives for India (Pari) suggests multifaceted causes of low literacy levels. One of the causes is “… not to be liked by teachers and fellow students …”. The report presented that “alienation” from the education system is a reason for the outbreaks of students. The right to education made education for children up to the age of 14. A 2023 News report showed that the highest percentage of children who were not at school belonged. This describes extreme marginalization and unreliability towards socio -economic reforms.
“I believe that the students were mixed with me because I” looked “English-language, monastery-educated, financially stable and Christian (since people believe, Christians” cool “). Pari Report emphasized how the educators’ belief system contributed to their exclusion. Cases were raised in which the teachers believed that Adivasi students did not “earn” an apprenticeship. This was their justification for neglect. Since their formative years did not prepare them for higher classes, they had to make themselves ridiculous by students and teachers.
Linguistic barriers And the underrepresentation of the mother tongue often brought the parents disorder. While a percentage of the population is willing to learn in Bengali or Hindi, although it is not their other tongue, others are not. Some tend to choose English because the possibilities are more available. Although it would be easier for some to learn in their mother tongue, they prevent a lack of resources from it.
“Most of the time, Adivasi fights and our history are not taken seriously. We also examined chapters on Hinduism, Sikhism, Mogul history, etc. at school, but the story of Adivasi was reduced to just an 8-10 line sales,” said the doctoral student from Westbengalen. Negative and stereotypical representations of the adivasis in the school curricula have hindered their elevation. Disaabon you is a children’s book that talks about the Santhale Rebellion from 1855. A retelling of their stories and writing their roots as “exotic” or “unusual” is done. Ruby Hembrom does that. The website The department of the West Bengal Stem development department sketched all year round over celebrations and cultural celebrations.
Available without ‘real’ development models that Lodha shabar The community gradually dies of hunger. The inclusion of adivasi history, movements and their fights in the curricula is a step forward to ensure inclination in classrooms. Teachers and educators should receive mandatory training for the development of integrative pedagogical practices. Instead of shifting the guilt, the state institutions should examine to ensure the proper implementation of positive programs. Financial support and encouragement should be made available to Adivasi writers to drive books in their mother tongue. While cultural celebrations and public holidays are necessary to commemorate festivals, you should not affect the “real” development.
Soumili is an independent researcher and has completed her reference to sociology at Jadavpur University. Your interest is to study the experiences of queer people in India.