UNDERSTANDING THE INDIAN TRIBAL LIFE AND THEIR ISSUES.
- PhD Research Scholar, Department of Social Work, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana 136119.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana 136119.
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Tribal community in India has been the most vulnerable community. Their fundamental human rights are violated in every step of life. Tribals are backward and poor, living in naturally isolated regional inhabitant. Tribals in remote areas are still devoid of common infrastructure facilities of road and communication, health and education and safe drinking water and sanitation, which do not allow them to absorb technological and financial help provided by government. Scheduled tribes are indications of primitive traits, distinctive culture, geographical isolation, shyness of contact with the community at large, and backwardness. The tribal population of the country is 10.43 crore, constituting 8.61% of the total population. Madhya Pradesh has the largest number of ST?s contributing 14.69% to the total percentage of ST population of India.The paper tries to understand the different aspects of Indian tribal life, like distribution of tribes in India, history of tribes, etc. The paper highlighted the major issues like, social, religious, educational, health related problems and many more. The researcher also recommended some suggestions regarding the issues or challenges of tribes.
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[Purshottam and Vanita Dhingra. (2017); UNDERSTANDING THE INDIAN TRIBAL LIFE AND THEIR ISSUES. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 1588-1595] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
PhD Research Scholar, Department of Social Work, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana 136119
