‘Patch-working’ Invisible Histories: Adivasi Women and Labour in India

The history of work is closely tied to the emergence of industrial capitalism. The transformations brought about by the industrial revolution catalysed significant research on understanding labour and its different aspects in Europe and the rest of the world (Hobsbawm 1996). In the Indian context,the pattern of industrial growth under colonialism had a significant impact on the course of history. In fact, the history of the working class in India is documented largely through the prism of industrial labour or the experiences of migrant rural labour (Breman 1996; Kapadia 1998; Sen 1999; Parry 2018). However, a lot that exists in the vernacular historiesof gender and communities remains unexplored and undocumented.