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Write short note : Emergence of classes among tribes.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Tribal Communities in India

Classical ethnography treated the tribe as the contrast to class society: production for use, corporate rights in land, no surplus to appropriate and so no propertied stratum. That picture no longer describes Adivasi India. Class has entered tribal society through property, the market, the state and, paradoxically, through protective discrimination itself.

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