Question

Discuss the different modes of tribal economy.

Answer 1

Thank you for getting in touch with us for the answer of your query. The economy in which the economy discourse explores the wisdom and tribal people system for our living or for the human beings' survival is known as the tribal economy. It has different modes which includes food gathering, hunting, pastoral people, shifting hill cultivation, manual laboring, and ash laboring. I hope this answer will be helpful for you.

Answer 2

 Tribal economy is actually an economy and an economic debate that seeks to explore the wisdom and systems of different tribes of people and sources of their subsistence and livelihood for survival as a people.
Therefore, this means that there different tribal peoples have different economic activities.
The modes of tribal economy are:

1. Food-gatherers and hunters: These are nomadic primitive tribes live far away from urban settlements  and have a simple type of social organization. Food gathering and hunting is their main subsistence economy e.g Jarwa, Kadar, Lodha in India

2.Craftsmen: These are Khasi and Naga  who are traditional black smiths.

3.Shifting hill cultivators: These are are tribes that carry out agricultural activities on hills by burning the shrubs, plants which also act as manure for the land

4. Pastoral people: These are tribes that make their livelihood rearing cows and buffaloes and use the milk product to exchange for daily basic needs. e.g Toda of the Nilgiri and Bhotia of Almora they also settle far away from urban settlements

5. Manual labor: For tribes that don't have land they have resort to manual labor. They make a living by selling their labor in different trades

6.   Permanent settled farmers: The majority of this tribe are agricultural laborers either in their on agricultural lands or the fields of others. e.g Munda, Oraon Santal, Gond