The DIRB has no information specific to Adivasis from the village of Tamar among its currently available sources.

For information on the Adivasi tribe in India in general, please refer to the attached documents.

This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Amnesty International. 1988. Amnesty International's Statements to the 40th Session of the U.N. Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. London: Amnesty International UK, p. 4.

The Irish Times. [Dublin]. 7 July 1993. City Edition. Ranjan Gupta. "Chotanagupur's Drums Fall Silent: The Adivasi Tribal People of Eastern India Have Seen Their Way of Life Destroyed." (NEXIS)

Die Neue Zuercher Zeitung. [Zurich, in German]. July 1993. Oswald Iten. "Friendly Contact." Swiss Review of World Affairs. (NEXIS)

Minority Rights Group. World Directory of Minorities. 1991. Harlow, UK: Longman Group UK Ltd., pp. 286-89.

Reuters. 8 September 1993. BC Cycle. "One Dead, 20 Hurt in Indian School Rows." (NEXIS)

World Press Review. November 1993. Oswald Iten. "Across India's 'Inner Line.' Indigenous Peoples of the Arunachal Pradesh Region." (NEXIS)

Minority Rights Group International. Various dates. London: Minority Rights Group International.

World Minorities in the Eighties. 1980. London: Quartermaine House.

Ethnic Preference and Public Policy in Developing States. 1986. Boulder, Co.

Minority Peoples in the Age of Nation-States. 1989. London: Pluto Press.

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