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Essay on how tribes protect our nature please answer fast

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Indian tribes have been living between two worlds: their own tribal world which is in transition, and the new social order which opens up vistas for their transformation. India today displays a very high degree of social and ethnic diver­sity. The population of India subsumes within it a multitude of caste and tribal groups representing different stages in the social evolution of the humankind. The social differentiation within each of these groups is no less impressive.

Broadly speaking, the contemporary In­dian society may be seen as comprising two mutually exclusive and differentiated social categories—a caste-based social order with an im­plicit social hierarchy, and a tribal segment by and large un-stratified and egalitarian in both appearance and content. While centuries of shared history have facilitated and promoted interaction between the caste-based peasant society and the tribes in forms which are myriad, the two have retained their intrinsic characteristics, best manifested in ethnic consciousness, social organization and modes of production.

The word tribe in the Indian context, however, conveys a sense of meaning which evades clarity. Generally, it refers to a state of tribal­ism which is ethnic (ethnically defined) as well as political (revealing their definitional status as scheduled tribe