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What are the features that distinguish tribes from the rest of the population?

  • UPSC 2013
  • Tribal Communities in India

"The rest of the population" is the operative phrase: what marks tribes in India is nothing intrinsic but a set of features defined against caste-peasant society. For the 705 notified Scheduled Tribes — 8.6% of the population in Census 2011 — they hold in the aggregate and as tendencies, never uniformly; it is the cluster,…

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  • Habitat and demography
  • Economic organisation
  • Social organisation
  • Language, religion and culture
  • Political and legal distinctiveness
  • How far the contrast holds
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