TRIBAL IDENTITY AND CULTURE - Comprising almost eight percent of India's population, the tribals are heterogenous and scattered over different parts of the country

A tribe is a group of people, usually staying in jungle areas, in a small locality, absolutely illiterate poor,
hardly clad in clothes, usually dark and frail, fully living within their own community whose marriage
always takes place among themselves, engaged in hunting and searching for roots, shoots and fruits as their
veg food and roasted animals as non-veg food, completely oblivious of the country‘s political and economic
condition, resisting all efforts of development and have a strong dislike for strangers and educated modern
community. A tribe is a group of people, usually staying in jungle areas, in a small locality, absolutely illiterate poor,
hardly clad in clothes, usually dark and frail, fully living within their own community whose marriage
always takes place among themselves, engaged in hunting and searching for roots, shoots and fruits as their
veg food and roasted animals as non-veg food, completely oblivious of the country‘s political and economic
condition, resisting all efforts of development and have a strong dislike for strangers and educated modern
community.A tribe is a group of people, usually staying in jungle areas, in a small locality, absolutely illiterate poor,
hardly clad in clothes, usually dark and frail, fully living within their own community whose marriage
always takes place among themselves, engaged in hunting and searching for roots, shoots and fruits as their
veg food and roasted animals as non-veg food, completely oblivious of the country‘s political and economic
condition, resisting all efforts of development and have a strong dislike for strangers and educated modern
community.In contemporary India, the word ‗tribe‘ has thus little cultural or social implications. It has become the
watchword of the political consciousness of a particular group of a people in the country. Like caste
consciousness or regional consciousness, tribal consciousness is fast developing to be a political tool which
has become symbolic of privileged treatment, separatist tendencies and in places a barrier to national
integration.

1. TribalTribal
Identity andIdentity and
CultureCulture
Contemporary Challenges
HIMANI SINGH
(M.A. DEVELOPMENT STUDIES)
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,MANDI
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2. CONCEPT OF TRIBE: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
TRIBAL IDENTITIY AND DISTORTION
FOOD AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
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3. IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON TRIBAL CULTURE
EFFECT OF DEVELOPMENT ON CULTURE
PORTRAYAL OF TRIBES IN POPULAR CULTURE
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4. What is an
identity?
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5. SATNAMI
TRIBE
The Ramnamis
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6. GOND
TRIBE
Largest tribal
group in the world
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7. BAIGA
TRIBE
The original
inhabitants of
Earth.
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8. LAMBADI
TRIBE
Banjaras who
migrated from
Afghanistan to
Rajasthan
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9. Who are
tribes?
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10. Mapping the Margin
TRIBAL PEOPLE NUMBER 104.3 MILLION,
FORMING 8.6 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL POPULATION OF INDIA.
LISTED 705 INDIVIDUAL ETHNIC GROUPS AS SCHEDULED TRIBES


IDENTIFIED 461 DISTINCT TRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN 1976.
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ANTHROPOLOGICALANTHROPOLOGICALANTHROPOLOGICAL
SURVEY OF INDIASURVEY OF INDIASURVEY OF INDIA
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11. -D.N Majumdar
A SOCIAL GROUP WITH TERRITORIAL
AFFILIATION, ENDOGAMOUS, WITH NO
SPECIALIZATION OF FUNCTIONS, RULED BY
TRIBAL OFFICERS, HEREDITARY OR
OTHERWISE, UNITED IN LANGUAGE OR
DIALECT, RECOGNIZING SOCIAL DISTANCE
WITH OTHER TRIBES OR CASTES WITHOUT
ATTACHING ANY SOCIAL OBLOQUY TO THEM.
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12. -Ralph Linton
.
A GROUP OF BANDS OCCUPYING A
CONTIGUOUS TERRITORY OR TERRITORIES
AND HAVING A FEELING OF UNITY DERIVING
FROM NUMEROUS SIMILARITIES IN A
CULTURE, FREQUENT CONTACTS AND A
CERTAIN COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS.
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13. -Ghurye
INDIAN TRIBES AS BACKWARD
HINDUS AND REJECTED SEPERATE
IDENTITY FOR TRIBES
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14. -Verrier Elwin
TRIBALS ARE NOT HINDUS, THEY HAVE A
SEPARATE IDENTITY. WITH EXCEPTION TO THE
NORTH-EAST, THOUGH THE AB-ORIGINES SHOULD
BE CLASSED AS HINDUS WHEREAS THEY SHOULD
BE SEPARATED IN TERMS OF RACE.
.
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15. Tribes had to experience two
forms of colonialism: one in the
hands of the British and the
other in the hands of the non-
tribal Indian population
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16. IMPACT
on
TRIBES
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17. Western Ghats Aarey Forest
Metro Building Project

18. Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo
Arand forest
Mining Activity

19. TRIBAL
LANGUAGES
FACING THREAT
OF EXTINCTION
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20. Figure:
Handiya,
a flower-based distilled
spirit version that has
been made for ages by the
tribal people of Central
India
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21. Figure:
The Musahars
(Rat Eaters of Bihar)
“A cultivated taste and
not compulsion”
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22. Portayal of Tribe
in the
popular culture
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24. ThankThank
you for youryou for your
patience.patience.
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