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Define ethnicity. Discuss the factors responsible for the growth of ethnic movements in India.

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  • Tribal Communities in India

Ethnicity is not a quantity of culture a group possesses but a relation it maintains with others. That shift — from content to relation — explains why culturally stable communities mobilise at particular moments.

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