Analyze tribal identities in present india
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There are major changes happening within the tribal societies today which have --~ .
rendered untenable the arbitrarily juxtaposing of the tribal society as the remnant of
the archaic and primitive historical past and the modern society with all the scientific
and technology driven cultures as two opposite ends of a continuum. Beginning with
the colonial rule, which brought western edu.cation, Christianity and the anendant
modern world view, many ofthe tribal communities in the north east India in general
and the Tangkhul in particular have witnessed unprecedented pace of change. In the
post-colonial independent India the pace of change within the tribal society has been
further accelerated owing to the various policies .and programmes adopted by the
government to 'integrate' the tribe with the rest of the society, more specifically. the
'mainstream' society. Of significance in thi§_ context is the government's policy of
positive discrimination, also referred to as the affirmative actions or the reservation -·-- ~-- ·--·----~-...... -·~
poli~i,f~ the Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) in India. This policy
along with other socio-economic and cultural developmental programmes adopted by
the government towards the tribe in India has brought about rapid and far reaching
structural transformations within the tribal societies. One of the most important
impacts of these policies and programmes is the emergence and development of a new
tribal group. This new group of people is broadly referred to as the tribal middle class
basically due to their similar orientations and lifestyles with the middle class of the
non-tribal society.
The emergence and development of the new group within the tribal social
structure ushered in a new phase in the transformation the erstwhile traditional
society. And one of the primary focuses of the present chapter is to analyze the
development of this particular group of people so as to see whether they are the
offshoot of the recent interventions from outside or are they generic categories which
gets transformed due to the outside interventions; the kind of leadership they provide
for the society and above all how the identity
rendered untenable the arbitrarily juxtaposing of the tribal society as the remnant of
the archaic and primitive historical past and the modern society with all the scientific
and technology driven cultures as two opposite ends of a continuum. Beginning with
the colonial rule, which brought western edu.cation, Christianity and the anendant
modern world view, many ofthe tribal communities in the north east India in general
and the Tangkhul in particular have witnessed unprecedented pace of change. In the
post-colonial independent India the pace of change within the tribal society has been
further accelerated owing to the various policies .and programmes adopted by the
government to 'integrate' the tribe with the rest of the society, more specifically. the
'mainstream' society. Of significance in thi§_ context is the government's policy of
positive discrimination, also referred to as the affirmative actions or the reservation -·-- ~-- ·--·----~-...... -·~
poli~i,f~ the Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) in India. This policy
along with other socio-economic and cultural developmental programmes adopted by
the government towards the tribe in India has brought about rapid and far reaching
structural transformations within the tribal societies. One of the most important
impacts of these policies and programmes is the emergence and development of a new
tribal group. This new group of people is broadly referred to as the tribal middle class
basically due to their similar orientations and lifestyles with the middle class of the
non-tribal society.
The emergence and development of the new group within the tribal social
structure ushered in a new phase in the transformation the erstwhile traditional
society. And one of the primary focuses of the present chapter is to analyze the
development of this particular group of people so as to see whether they are the
offshoot of the recent interventions from outside or are they generic categories which
gets transformed due to the outside interventions; the kind of leadership they provide
for the society and above all how the identity
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