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Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India (2023)
Journal Article
Axelby, R., & Thakur, V. (2024). Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India. Sociological Bulletin, 73(1), 24-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380229231212886

The socio-economic condition of Scheduled Tribe (ST) groups of India has been a key academic concern since the administrative category was established by Constitutional Order in 1950. This article explores the integration of ST groups into the presen... Read More about Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India.

How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba (2023)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2023). How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba. Himalaya (Portland, Or.), 42(2), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.7819

This article uses decisions about voting, including the decision not to vote, as a prism to consider what it means to be Gaddi in 21st-century Himachal Pradesh (H.P.). While the results of polls can tell us how people voted, they say little about the... Read More about How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba.