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Indigenous studies today have been gaining world-wide attention, initiating and promoting inter-disciplinary research. The conceptual framework of postmodern theory, with its multi-glossia and pastiche, has created the needed space to negotiate the dynamics of identity, margins, ethnicities, race and gender, in terms of socio-political realities and aesthetics of culture. The term Indigenous is applied to the original, first inhabitants or occupants of a particular geographical area. The Indigenous agenda develops alternate ways of understanding the world through Indigenous experience. The Indigenous people of India are known as Adivasis and Scheduled Tribes. 30% of the tribal households in India are landless. Abject poverty and misery plague their lives, coupled with landlessness on the rise.TheMuthanga agitation, spearheaded by the Adivasi activist and writer C. K. Janu, proved to be the herald of manyland struggles undertaken by the marginalized subaltern people of Kerala for arableagricultural land. This paper focuses on the dynamics of ethnicities and Adivasi cultural encounters in C.K.Janu’s novel Mother Forest.