Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
What is the nature of religious change among tribal communities? Illustrate with two examples from colonial and post-independence times.
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- Tribal Communities in India
Tribal religion is classically non-textual, non-congregational and territorial — spirits of hill, grove and ancestor mediated by a village priest, not a scripture. Change in such a religion is never a simple exchange of faiths; it reorganises the relation between community, land and the sacred. Four processes capture its nature, and two movements a century…
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- The nature of the change: four processes
- Colonial illustration: the Tana Bhagat movement among the Oraon, from 1914
- Post-independence illustration: the Donyi-Polo revival in Arunachal Pradesh
- What the two illustrations reveal
- Conclusion
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