Unfree Mobility: Adivasi Women’s Migration
Published By: Centre for Women’s Development Studies | Published Date: April, 01 , 2014On a hot summer’s day in 1982, while walking through a jungle path in
Bankura, West Bengal, anthropologist Narayan Banerjee asked an old
Santhal woman who was accompanying him to narrate her experiences as
a migrant agricultural labourer. At this, she stopped and exclaimed “what
a foolish question to ask! I have lost count of how many times I have
gone to ‘your’ village and of course you know how we stayed and
worked there, what we gave and what we received. Even if you were
young in those days, surely you noticed.”
Author(s): Indrani Mazumdar | Posted on: Jun 19, 2015 | Views() | Download (522)