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Discuss the main features of the debate between G.S. Ghurye and V. Elwin on tribal development.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Tribal Communities in India

What should an India about to be independent do with the people it called aborigines? In the early 1940s Verrier Elwin answered: protect them; Govind Sadashiv Ghurye: absorb them. The dispute was never only about policy but about what a tribe is, and who gains from keeping it separate.

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  • Elwin: contact, loss of nerve, the National Park
  • Ghurye: tribes as imperfectly integrated classes of Hindu society
  • What was in dispute
  • How the debate closed
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion

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