State in Development: De-codify the Cultural Politics of Will to Develop the Adivasi of Jharkhand

Abstract

Thinking of State in development illustrates that social life of an individual, community, society or territory becomes the subject of multiple interventions. The theology of development assumes that intervention is needed to reform the social life of an individual, community or society. State intervention in the name of development has a social and ecological cost for the indigenous community. State in Development is a series of events and actions as well as a particular discourse and ideological construct that demands examination to understand how state constructs the aesthetic deception which strengthened the State capacity to govern the unruly region of Indigenous population. It functions as a hegemonic order to order, control and represent the regions or populations where indigenous community are predominating in nature. This paper is about the issues and questions regarding the development intervention mediated and facilitated by State and the changes it has brought to local ecology of Jharkhand. By using the literature of political ecology this paper shows that development facilitated ecological degradation at local level while also induced State building and State formation among the local community.