Rethinking Tribes in Indiathrough Context of Tribe-Caste Continuum: Negotiation of Identity and Exploration of hypervisiBility Among Siddi Tribe
The study of tribes in India remains a complex and often paradoxical field, primarily when tribes are observed as distinct ethnographic units. A central question in tribal discourse is whether Adivasi studies can be treated as a distinct discipline and how it relates to other primary academic fields such as history, economics, and political science. A significant challenge in tribal studies seems to be that tribes are invisible in modern state archives, making it difficult to construct a coherent historical narrative for them, as opposed to other subaltern groups like Dalits.