0- It connotes the political awareness and the assertion of rights
- Living in impoverished and exploited circumstances
- Denied access to forest and forced them to migrate in search of wage labour
- Government’s monopoly over forests continued even after independence.
- ‘internal colonialism ’ faced by the tribals in the name of national development, mining industries
- Displaced from their land without appropriate compensation or rehabilitation, (projects such as Sardar Sarovar dam, Polavaram dam etc)
