Indian Anthropologist
Published by Indian Anthropological Association.
Volume 56, No. 1, January - June 2026
SPECIAL ISSUE
DENOTIFIED TRIBES IN INDIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Guest Editor: DEEPSHIKHA AGARWAL
CONTENTS
Forward to Special Issue
Denotified Tribal Communities in India:
From Historical Moorings to Contemporary Landscape
Deepshika Agarwal
Articles
From Criminalisation to Marginalisation: Historical Injustices and Life Experiences of Denotified Tribes Indulging in Community-Based Prostitution
Deepshikha Agarwal and Sulbha Rai
Nomadic Pastoralism and Indian Rurality: Inter-relationship between Pastoralists and Settled Cultivators
Ahfaz Khan
Struggle for Inclusive Development: A Case Study of the Maset Community of Haryana, India
Priyanka Airi Goyal
Negotiating Customary Rights and Regulations amid Climate Change: Gaddi Pastoralism in the Western Himalayas
Yash Goswami
From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Policy-Informed Model for Advancing Digital Literacy in Marginalised Societies
Shanta Goswami Varma and Malay Neerav
Livelihood and Stigma: Survival of Denotified Tribes of Dharampura, Delhi under the Shadow of the Habitual Offenders Act
Swati Agarwal
The Passing of the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 and its effect on Gaduliya Lohar in the Present Context
Madhavi Tripathi
In Conversation
Ethnographic Study of De-Notified, Nomadic, and Semi-Nomadic Communities: In Conversation with Dr Mundayat Sasikumar
Deepshikha Agarwal
Book Reviews
Smith Mehta. 2023. The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media.
Sanjana Sharma Marwaha
Gurpreet Bal. 2023. Sociology of Entrepreneurship in India.
Divya Mehta
Philip Shannon. 2022. Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony.
Ayush Kushwaha
Maria Kathryn Tomlinson. 2025. The Menstrual Movement in the Media: Reducing Stigma and Tackling Social Inequalities.
Arunima Chauhan
Ken-Ichi Akao and Ayu Washizu (eds.). 2026. Climate Change Issues and Social Sciences: Towards a Carbon Neutral Society.
Suvankar Goswami
Report
National Seminar on Contemporary India: Society, Culture and Politics (26 November 2025): A Report
Suraj Beri
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