Development, Education and Human Rights

Tribes in Transition

Abstract

In a rapidly changing world order education along with economic empowerment will play a very significant role in achieving sustainable human development. In fact, it was this realization that pitch forked education into the core of millennium development goals. However, the effect of education as the harbinger of development and guarantor of human rights has had little effect on marginalized and excluded section of society. The marginalized have been further pushed to the corner due to the ill effect of globalization especially in the context of their human rights. In this article the author tries to put things into perspective by examining the travails of tribal communities in India.