Question

Describe the problem of tribal workers in plantation and in coal mines?

Answer 1

The tribal workers were not paid properly. They were given less wages.

Answer 2

The tribal groups were considered important people, because it is they who controlled their territories. Under the British rule they lose their administrative power and were forced to follow law made by British officials in India.

Before the British arrived, tribal chiefs were important people; they had some money and the right to manage their lands and people.

But under the British rule, they lost much of their powers and were asked to discipline their tribe on behalf of the British government.

This subjugation meant that the tribal chiefs lost the authority among their people, and gradually also the will to fulfil their traditional functions.