Imagine you belong to a terbal community during the calonial rule in India describe any four change that happened around you that affected your Community
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Answer:A large number of tribes have been converted to different religions
- leaving their tribal identity just to get redemption from exploitation and to elevate
their status and honour. Sometimes it becomes very difficult to differentiate
between a tribal and a caste group. Tribals have a strong sense of their
distinctiveness and separate themselves from non-tribals. A large number of
tribals in India even today live in hilly and forested areas where population is
sparse and without proper communication facilities.
David Mandelbaum{l972) points out that 'In tribal life the
principal links for the whole society are based on kinship'. Kinship is not simply a
principle of social organization; it is also a principle of inheritance, division of
labour and distribution of power and privileges. Mostly tribal societies are small
in scale. They possess a morality, religion and world view of their own,
corresponding to their social relations.
Sahlins opines that the term 'tribal society' should be restricted to
'segmentary systems'. The segmentary systems have relations on a small scale.
They enjoy autonomy and are independent of each other in a given region. On the
other hand, castes are 'organic' in nature, as each caste is part of an organic whole
in terms of Jajmani system, commensality and connubiality. The principle of
organic relationship explains inter-dependence of various caste groups upon each
other in social life (Quoted from Sharma 1987: 54}.
While centring the discussion around tribe--caste continuum there
were some scholars who argued for the continuum, saw tribes as not being
fundamentally different from caste-peasant society, but merely less stratified with
a more community-based rather than individual notion of resource ownership