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Don't down on me. Hello Red Nation podcast listeners. I am Akash Poiyan and I'm guest hosting today's

episode. I belong to the Gorn tribe from Chathisg State in India.

I'm a researcher and a writer and currently working as a faculty at the Asian College of

Journalism Chennai.

I am also the founder of Adivasy Resurgents, an online platform archiving the writings by

Adivasy and Tribal Writers in India.

In today's episode, I will be talking to Professor Banga Bukha, who is an

Adivasi scholar from Lombard community based in Telangana State of India. Adivarsi scholars in Indian academia have rarely found space or recognition due to the lack of

implementation of affirmative action policy and the hegemony of Brahmin and uppercast Hindus in higher educational institutes.

However, Professor Bukia is among the few Adevasi scholars whose work has a

a PhD in the field of history and Adewasi studies. He has a PhD from Wauwick University

where he worked under the supervision of Professor David Hardman, a founding

member of the Subaltern Studies Group.

He was also a British Council Visiting Fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies University

of London.

Professor Bukha is a professor of history at University of Hyderabad.

His research interest includes community histories, the effects of power, knowledge,

governmentality, and dominance, the state and nationalism, intellectual histories of

subaltern communities, identity politics by forest and hill people in the 19th and 20th century.

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