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What changes have taken place in the tribal social stratification pattern in recent times? Describe the factors responsible for these changes.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Tribal Communities in India

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Tribal societies were never unranked, but they ranked people by principles unlike those of the surrounding society: age, sex, generation, lineage seniority and ritual office rather than property or purity. What has changed in recent decades is less the fact of inequality than its principle — the axes of ranking have been replaced, and new…

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