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Analyse critically the Government of India’s tribal policy.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Tribal Communities in India

The Government of India's tribal policy runs as two policies at once. Declared, it is protective and pluralist, resting on Jawaharlal Nehru's tribal Panchsheel and an elaborate constitutional architecture. Practised, the same state is the largest single acquirer of tribal land — not hypocrisy, but a structural split between the welfare arm and the developmental…

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  • The declared policy
  • The practice of the developmental state
  • Why the contradiction is structural
  • Conclusion

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