About the Book: Rethinking Tribe In India Context: Realities Issues and
Challenges
The general understanding about tribes in India is somewhat hazy, confusing and
at times biased. Tribals are almost invariably equated with marginalised,
deprived or disadvantaged groups. With the rapid change of the so-called
development scenario since independence, it is imperative to re-examine and
re-assess tribes in the Indian context with a view to underline the major
concepts that go with tribal formation and see them in the context of their
geographical location, historical perspective, ethnicity-linked development and
displacement, fallacy of administrative categorisation, identity politics,
economic priorities and growing political consciousness. At the conceptual
level, tribes in India