Tribal development in India: Some policy perspective

Abstract

Isolationist, Assimilationist, and Integrationist were three different approaches taken by the authorities in India to the development of tribal communities, and each was founded on a different viewpoint regarding the appropriate position for tribal communities in the larger debate about development. However, the potential outcomes of each of the approaches could/would have been as different as possible and would elude any metric to compare the benefits. All the approaches acknowledged the apparent and resulting differences of tribal communities from the general population and accepted the need for a pragmatic yet non mundane framework for addressing the problems faced by the tribal community. Therefore, the perspective of tribal policy in India is the main topic of this paper.