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Describe the socio-cultural consequences of tribals’ contacts with the non-tribals. What measures would you suggest to bring the tribals in the national mainstream?

  • UPSC 1996
  • Tribal Communities in India

Contact between tribal and non-tribal India is old, but its character changed decisively under colonial rule, when exchange between neighbours became incorporation on unequal terms. The socio-cultural consequences follow from that inequality rather than from contact as such.

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  • The terms of contact
  • Socio-cultural consequences
  • Whose mainstream?
  • Measures
  • Conclusion

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