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Write short note with a sociological perspective: Verrier Elwin’s views on freedom for the tribals.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Tribal Communities in India

Verrier Elwin spent three decades among the Gond, Baiga and Muria of central India and then in the North-East Frontier Agency. The value running through it is freedom — not the liberal freedom of the individual, but the right of a people to change along lines of its own choosing, at its own pace.

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  • Freedom as self-direction, not mere non-interference
  • Defending what reformers wanted to abolish
  • The mature formulation
  • Freedom, or a curated museum?
  • Conclusion

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