ABSTRACT
Newly formed in 2000 by carving out the historically poorest and [most] marginalised parts of the state of Bihar (itself historically poor and marginal), Jharkhand appears as the fruition of a century of struggle over the rights of ‘tribal’ communities and disenfranchised groups under colonial and postcolonial authority. . . . Has attending to the situation of women, Adivasis (‘tribals’), and local communities reinvented or simply reinstated the global development machine?
