The relationship between tribes and castes in India

MSO-004: SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT

Course Code: MSO-004

Assignment Code: MSO-004/AST/TMA/2016-17

Total Marks: 100

Q. 7. Describe the relationship between tribes and castes in India with suitable examples.

Ans. There are more than 400 groups in Indian society which are officially designated as scheduled tribes. These groups have all been undergoing changes. These changes have been observed and described by a variety of persons for nearly 100 years, but their consequences and implications have been seriously misconstrued. The conventional wisdom among anthropologists has been that when a tribe undergoes change through a loss of isolation and through close integration with the wider society, sooner or later, and with unfailing regularity, it becomes a caste. While this may have been true to a greater or lesser extent till the forties, the argument is no longer valid. Yet anthropologists have gone on making such a generalisation and despite in adequacy of data, concept and argument to support it.

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