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Describe the distinctive features of tribal communities in India. Discuss the factors affecting tribal identity.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Tribal Communities in India

India's 705 notified Scheduled Tribes, 10.43 crore people or 8.6 per cent of the population in Census 2011, share no single sociological trait. The distinctive features are best stated as a cluster holding in the aggregate; identity must then be explained historically, since, as Virginius Xaxa argues, it is produced by interaction with the wider…

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