Tri bad?s and Social fl n cd us ion: Between Culture and Development

Native/Tribal development has been given one of the major special handling by all the Governments in India during all five year plans on explanation of the socio-economic backwardness of the tribes. Tribes are at the bottom of social and political stepladder in India. Articulation of development processes will not only lead to appropriate solutions but it also helps in sensitizing field workers who in the past often held a negative stereotype about tribals. From the standpoint of policy, it is essential to comprehend that tribal communities are defenseless not only for the reason that they are poor, asset less and illiterate compared to the wide-ranging population; often their diverse defenselessness arises from their inability to negotiate and cope with the consequences of their forced amalgamation with the conventional economy, society, cultural and political system, from which they were historically secluded as the result of their relative isolation. This book would be useful for the academicians, NGOs policy makers and public