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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write a note on ethnicity and integration in the context of tribes.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Tribal Communities in India

Ethnicity and integration are ordinarily posed as opposites: the more a tribe integrates, the less ethnic it should become. Indian evidence inverts the expectation. Tribal ethnicity has grown with integration, and most tribal assertion is a bargaining position over the terms on which the tribe enters the nation, not a bid to leave it.

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  • The policy triad and what it assumed
  • Why contact produced boundaries rather than fusion
  • Assertion as a bid for terms of integration
  • Where the bargain fails
  • Conclusion

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