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‘Uneven development is the major source of tribal unrest in India’. Examine the statement in relation to the movements in tribal India.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Tribal Communities in India

Uneven development names a mechanism: growth that draws resources out of a region while leaving its people poorer. Tested against actual movements it explains middle India's mineral belt well and the north-east badly, which suggests it identifies the location of tribal movements more reliably than their cause.

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  • The thesis: internal colonialism
  • Movements that fit
  • Where the thesis under-explains
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