: Droupadi Murmu’s election as president is a win for Adivasis – now she must show she isn’t a token #IndiaNEWS On July 21, India got its first-ever woman Adivasi president in Droupadi Murmu. Murmu,

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Droupadi Murmu’s election as president is a win for Adivasis – now she must show she isn’t a token #IndiaNEWS
On July 21, India got its first-ever woman Adivasi president in Droupadi Murmu. Murmu, who served as the governor of Jharkhand from 2015-’21, was fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party as the presidential candidate. She was elected with an overwhelming majority.In 1997, the BJP had supported the candidature of KR Narayanan, who was elected as India’s first president from a Scheduled Caste background. Murmu’s victory is not just that of one party. Its implications can be drawn deep down to the very philosophy of what India as an independent nation has been striving to achieve.Whether Murmu’s victory can bring the goals of that philosophy to fruition will need to be seen. But at the moment, from the point of view of a modern, multicultural, multi-ethnic nation-state, Murmu’s victory is the victory of representation. She carries the dual identities of marginalisation that have been a hurdle to India’s reputation as an otherwise progressive position in world politics – gender and ethnicity.That India is a patriarchal society where gender determines access to societal privileges is well established. More relevant to Murmu’s candidature is her ethnic identity as an Adivasi.Adivasis have long been treated as second-class citizens, marginalised and pushed to the periphery. Much of educated India may not...Read more

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