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Write short notes with a sociological perspective: ‘Isolationism’ as a dominant feature of colonial tribal policy.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Tribal Communities in India

Isolationism was the colonial state's standing answer to the tribal question: govern the hills separately, keep the plains out, and keep the ordinary law and the ordinary politics of British India away. It was administrative practice long before it became a doctrine, and the doctrine came afterwards to justify it.

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