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Write short note with a sociological perspective on the following in not more than 150 words: Unity and diversity among the tribes in India.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Tribal Communities in India

India's 705 notified Scheduled Tribes — 10.43 crore people, 8.6% of the population (Census 2011) — form a single administrative category covering communities that share no common language, religion or economy. The sociological question is therefore what holds the category together. André Béteille's answer, that tribes share a relation to the wider society rather than…

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  • Axes of diversity
  • Sources of unity
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