Power of the Marginalised: Community Action by a Tribal Community to Uproot Encroachment from Common Grazing Land at Viyal Village, Rajasthan

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/84
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Type:	Book Chapter
Author:	Patel, Pemaram; Kashwan, Prakash; Pastakia, A.
Book Title:	Locked Horns: Conflicts and their Resolution in Community Based Natural Resource Management
Publisher:	Books for Change
Location:	Bangalore, India
Page(s):	141-152
Date:	2008
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/84
Sector:	Social Organization Grazing
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	indigenous institutions grazing grasslands conflict collective action resource management
Abstract:	"This paper presents a conflict between two communities of Viyal village. The downtrodden tribal community of this village challenges the power wielding Rajputs on the issue of controlling the village grassland. The case highlights the importance of concerted action in removing encroachments by powerful sections of society on common lands. An important aspect of this case is the fact that the villagers steadfastly refused all forms of external intervention and took effective non-violent steps of their own to resolve the conflict."

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