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A D I V A S I VOLUME 51 NUMBERS 1 & 2 JUNE - DECEMBER 2011 C O N T E N T S Sl. Name of the Paper Title of the Paper Page No. Contributors 1 Nirmal Chandra Dash Bio-cultural Determinants of Fertility of the 1 Mankidia: A Semi-nomadic Tribe of Odisha 2 Niharranjan Mishra Social Exclusion and Marginal 10 Communities: A Case of Pani Panchayat in Southern Odisha 3 Nilakantha Panigrahi, 20 Health Care Services among The Tribal Communities of Malkangiri: An Empirical Study 4 Chitrasen Pasayat Tribal and Non-Tribal Interaction in 38 Kalahandi District of Odisha: A Study of Chhatar Jatra of Goddess Manikeswari in Bhawanipatna 5 H. Samantaraya Man-Nature-Spirit Complex among the 45 Santals 6 Sanjukta Das Health Conditions of the Tribals in Odisha 56 7 Chandrashree Lenka Impact of Odisha Food Mix On Growth of 71 Tribal Children- A Nutritional Analysis 8 Harihar Das Tribal Odisha: Ethnic Ties & Tensions in 76 Yudhistira Sahoo Changing Time 9 Anand Ota Discontentment Amongst The Displaced & 80 Anil Ota Factors for Delay in Relocation: The Case of TATA Steel Kalinga Nagar Project Journal of Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI) Bhubaneswar Odisha India i Published by: Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI), Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar. Editorial Board S. K. Sarangi Member Secretary, ST&SC Development Dept, Govt. of Odisha. K. K. Mohanti Member Former Director, SCSTRTI, Bhubaneswar. P. K. Das Member Professor of Anthropology, Utkal University J.Dash Member Professor & HOD, Dept of Anthropology, Utkal University , P. Panda Member-Editor Director, SCSTRTI, Bhubaneswar S.C. Mohanty Associate -Editor Deputy Director, SCSTRTI, Bhubaneswar ADIVASI is published twice a year, in June and December, by the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute, CRPF Square, Unit-VIII, Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha, India. It publishes research papers in the field of social sciences, applied anthropology, development studies, and problems of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Articles based on empirical study are given preference. It also publishes book reviews. The facts presented and the views expressed in ADIVASI are the author’s and not those of the Editor, the Editorial Board and the Instititute (SCSTRTI). The authors are solely responsible for the presentation of data and their opinions. Information for authors: Manuscripts must be typed on one side of sheet in double space. Two copies of the manuscript including the abstract along with the soft copy (CD/ Floppy) must be submitted. Bibliography is to be listed alphabetically and chronologically for each author. References to literature should follow the pattern as in Current Anthropology as follows. BASCOM, W.R. 1951 Yoruba food, Africa 21. BOVILL, E.W. 1933, Caravans of the Old Sahara, London: Oxford University Press. DOGGETT, H. 1965. ―The development of the cultivated sorghums‖, in Essays on crop plant evolution. Edited by Sir Joseph Hutchinson, pp. 50-69, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Authors shall submit an undertaking in writing with the article to the effect that their respective submitted article has not been published earlier anywhere and if found so, not the publishers of Adivasi but they themselves shall be held responsible Authors should send their brief bio-data. All communications should be addressed to the Editor/Associate Editor Rate of Subscription: Inland: Single Issue Rs.15/- Abroad: Single Issue $ 1 (one US $) Double Issue Rs.30/- Double Issue $ 2 (two US $) (Annual / Combined) (Annual / Combined) Back Issues are available for sale. The journal is also supplied on Exchange Basis. ii Editorial It is a matter of satisfaction that the Journal Adivasi Vol 51 is getting released. I am sure; this number combined volume released during Annual Adivasi Exhibition of this year would give pleasure to the academicians, development personnel, researchers and also to the concerned readers since it spreads over a wider spectrum on tribals and their resources. Studies on tribal communities who lived in harmony with nature, combining reverences for nature with sustainable management of resources reveal interesting transitions as a result of developmental interventions in health and economic frontiers. The journal devoted for the study of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe based on fieldwork. The papers in this volume are based on empirical studies mostly among the tribal communities of Odisha. The nine papers, being approved for publication by the editorial board of the journal Adivasi, comprising various aspects of tribal life and living covering wider tangible and intangible areas of interactions. These have been organized with equitable weightage on biological and socio-cultural foundations. It initiates with a paper on fertility and runs through resource sharing to the analysis of intangibles, evaluation of tangible, challenges and choices of the development induced displacement. Prof N.C Dash‘s paper is based on study on fertility scenario among the food gathering and hunting nomad Mankidias of Mayurbhanj, Odisha which revealed that with low mean age at marriage, a prolonged breastfeeding and prevalence of traditional contraception methods has been the major cause of low fertility and resultant population size. Prof Dash suggested for an effective health intervention strategy. Dr. N. Mishra in his empiric paper has emphasized on social exclusion of marginal communities in sharing and caring for water resources for irrigation through a local pani panchayat. He has explained how the community based initiation is being hijacked and assumes functional status under the hegemony of dominant caste and class communities. The approach of collective action has failed in giving justice to the common man. Shortfall of policy and absence of scientific approaches has contributed to insecurity of livelihoods of poor tribal and women who remain at the receiving ends for the absence of ownership rights of the land possessed for cultivation. The tribal livelihood is largely conditioned by geo-physical structure. Dr Panigrahi‘s paper –the third one in this volume, analyses the data of Malkangiri, a tribal district recently notoriously known to have been Naxals infected. He appraises the availability of and accessibility to health infrastructure and services in the study area. As regards the quality of health services provided to the tribals, he suggests the needs of an aggressive improvement to overcome the inadequacies through decentralization of health service delivery system else the region will be away from human endowment. Under the royal patronage, the popular Chhatar Jatra of Kalahandi has been treated as a historic glory. Dr. Pasayat in his paper while giving a descriptive analysis of this elaborate festive occasion focused on the potency of local tourism that would be tapped as an expanded livelihood source for some. The cultural inheritance of Chhatar Jatra has in the meantime assumed the sacred responsibilities of the general people of Kalahandi at large. While analyzing the author has shown the process of syncretism where Manikeswari Devi a Hindu deity has been considered to be a unique blend of tribal and non-tribal culture. An iconographic comparison iii between Stambeswari and Manikeswari Devi, he suggests, would start a trend of universalisation against the localized deity and the festivities woven around. Adivasis who lived in harmony with nature, combining reverences for nature with sustainable management of resources have their own worldviews quite different from non-tribal people. With this backdrop H. Samantaraya‘s descriptive analytic paper deals with man-nature spirit -complex among the Santals in the changing scenario. The paper infers that so long the worldview of the Santals assumes its integral position in relation to the greater society, the boundary maintenance of the community will be faster and the language as a tool would help for the retention of cultural identity expressing their cohesive force. There has been a close connection between the accessibility to health services and health status of the community. Based the NFHS-II and III data from secondary sources Sanjukta Das in her paper tries to make a comparative analysis to indicate the health deprivation among the tribes of Odisha. The seventh paper is on nutritional impact of food mix meant for tribal children undertaken by Chandrashree Lenka. It is about the food mix and nutritional value of the food and nutritional health of tribal children, quality of food mixes by organoleptic taste, acceptability taste and by observing their shelf life. In the growing era of global connectivity and transfer of technology across the nations we witness varieties of destabilization and tensions comprising ethnic violence, agitations and conflicts on development and displacement issues. The paper jointly contributed is based on secondary data highlighting a few theoretical propositions. However, discussing the tribal Odisha and their ethnic cohesion and conflict in transition Mr. H. Das and Y. Sahoo are of opinion that the society which is receptive to new ideas makes a steady progress and society which is impervious to external influence retaliates generating unsolved problem The joint paper on a cases study of TATA Steel at Kalinganagar, at Jajpur, Odisha contributed by Anand Ota and Anil Ota‘s while highlighting the discontentment among the displaced has made a cross cultural comparison and suggested a few

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