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Discuss the various problems of tribal communities in India and assess the impact of tribal development efforts after Independence.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Tribal Communities in India

Census 2011 counted 10.43 crore Scheduled Tribes, 8.6% of the population, in 705 notified communities. Their problems are not those of a population that merely lags behind: they were produced by the very processes — commercial forestry, land settlement, mining, irrigation — that enriched others. Policy since 1947 has been caught between compensating for that…

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  • Assessing the development effort
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