Deconstructing Tribal Geographies in Central India
In this essay, I argue that historical sociology is vital to strengthening the sociological understanding of tribal communities. Presently, the anthropological literature on tribal communities informing sociological analysis lacks both contextualization and a historical dimension. Hence, a comparative historical recontextualization of categories of analysis can clarify the messy entanglements of the tribal world. I argue that the “frontier” as...