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Write short note : Isolation approach in tribal policy.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Tribal Communities in India

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The isolation approach holds that contact between tribes and the wider society is, under unequal conditions, destructive, so the state should keep the two apart until the tribe can meet the outside world on its own terms. It has been colonial practice, a serious anthropological position, and, in a narrow form, current Indian policy.

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  • The claim, and its colonial form
  • Elwin's case, and Elwin's revision
  • Ghurye's attack and Nehru's middle way
  • The modern echo
  • The critique
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