Question

describe the relationship between tribes and castes in india with suitable example

Answer 1

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the forties, the argument is no longer
valid.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.