Premasri points to a growing campaign for land redistribution spearheaded by Dalit women in Andhra Pradesh:

Recognizing the the need to make their voices heard, dalit women in Andhra Pradesh are rising up and demanding their rights by filing applications for ownership of unused land. To date, over 25,000 applications have been filed by women in response to a July 2007 government order that states that “…assignment of government land wherever available to landless poor for agricultural purpose shall be granted within 3 months from the date of receipt of application.”

Indira Jalli takes a critical look at Verrier Elwin:

Retribution is made symbolically
By accepting rice –beer, toddy
Or chunk of monkey meat from
Sauvra, Khond or Koya
But the real intoxication comes
From Indian ‘upper’ caste mysticism
Not from the aboriginality of ‘others’
In India!
Its been a greatest barter between
Local essentialism and international
Postmodernism!