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What is ethnonationalism? Examine the critical factors responsible for tribal discontent in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Tribal Communities in India

Ethnonationalism is the claim that the nation is constituted by descent rather than by residence or citizenship. In tribal India it is the form discontent takes wherever a community is territorially concentrated — which is why the two halves of this question belong together.

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  • What ethnonationalism is
  • Examining the factors behind tribal discontent
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