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Coping Mechanism Among Tribes In India: A Case Study Of Melghat, Nilratan Shende

Himalayan Policy Research Conference

This research identifies a series of coping mechanism on which people of Melghat in the state of Maharashtra rely throughout the year. Variation in each of the coping mechanisms is analyzed in light of ownership of resources, access to natural resources, and gender discrimination. The paper takes a sociological approach to relate problems of food security to the prevailing structural social disparities and consequent discrimination.