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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Trace the impact of cultural contact on the Indian tribes.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Tribal Communities in India

Indian tribes have never been sealed societies, so the question is not whether contact occurred but what kind it was. Traced over three phases, contact shifts from exchange between unequal neighbours to incorporation by a state and a market, and the cultural consequences change with it.

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  • Pre-colonial contact: a continuum, not a frontier
  • Colonial contact: the rupture
  • Post-independence contact: development, market and media
  • What the concepts capture, and miss
  • Conclusion

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