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Explain the definitional problems concerning the tribal communities in India.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Tribal Communities in India

India has 705 notified Scheduled Tribes and no definition of a tribe. The difficulty is structural, not careless: it sits in three layers — a concept borrowed from elsewhere, an administrative list that replaced it, and a politics that now decides who enters the list.

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