The Status of Tribal and Their Quest for Recognition with Reference to Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s ‘The Adiwasi Will not Dance’

The paper aims at delving into the deplorable conditions of Indian Tribal due to several reasonsand their struggles to prove their existence. India is a country well-known to the entire globe havingits peculiar recognition of diversity. It is a home to a multiple of cultures, traditions, andcommunities. Among these communities are the indigenous tribal groups that have a unique andrich cultural identity. These tribal groups, often referred to as Adivasis, live in different parts ofIndia, mainly in rural and forest areas. With the advent of liberalization, globalization andindustrialization, the community has remained unnoticed and thrown out from the main streamsociety and development, one of the reasons being their isolation from the main stream society.Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is basically a doctor by profession, a short story writer and anacclaimed novelist of an extraordinary caliber. He received the Sahitya Akadami Yuva Purskar in20215. ‘The Adivasi Will not Dance’ represents a collection of little history which contributes tothe character of India as a developing, diverse and evolving nation. The most of the stories in thecollection underscore the plight and deplorable conditions of the marginalized tribal community.