Notwithstanding the attention paid to the welfare ofIndia'sscheduled tribes
during the six and a half decades ofindependence,these tribes are still at the
bottom level of humandevelopmentwithin the country. They are gradually
beingdispossessed ofwhatever resources they had under their control inthe past.
Infact, the modern development paradigm cannot addressthe problemsof these
people and there is an urgent need for analternativeparadigm. This book, which
is an outcome of a nationalseminar inIndia, discusses this lack of development
among thecountry'sscheduled tribes. The book contains papers on nutritionand
growth,tribal economy, tribal development, the concept oftribe, healthcare,
disease, etc.