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    The document discusses the growing political participation and demands of tribal communities in India. It notes that reservations, education, elections, and welfare programs have increased tribal confidence and political involvement. However, some protest movements have turned violent due to a lack of economic development and frustration with tribal grievances not being addressed. The document also examines the complex relationship between tribal and non-tribal communities, noting that while some outsiders have exploited tribal areas, overall cooperation is needed for mutual economic and social progress.

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    The document discusses the growing political participation and demands of tribal communities in India. It notes that reservations, education, elections, and welfare programs have increased tribal confidence and political involvement. However, some protest movements have turned violent due to a lack of economic development and frustration with tribal grievances not being addressed. The document also examines the complex relationship between tribal and non-tribal communities, noting that while some outsiders have exploited tribal areas, overall cooperation is needed for mutual economic and social progress.

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    tribal welfare departments, Panchay ati Raj, spread of literacy and education, reservations in government services and in higher

    educational institutions, and repeated elections have led to increasing confidence among the tribal people and greater political participation by themor at least by the growing middle classes and intelligentsia among themin the constitutional political processes. They are now insisting on a greater and more active political role for themselves, and acquiring increasing representation in different political structures and institutions. Above all, they are demanding a greater share in national economic development. Protest movements have sprung up among tribals out of their frustration with the lack of development and welfare. These are bound to produce positive results in time. The government policy has usually been conciliatory , though not necessarily successful in redressing tribal grievances. But some of the protest movements have taken to violence, leading to strong state action against them. Little ground has been gained by them, though they have often dramatically drawn national attention to the tribal condition. The growing tribal antagonism towards the non-tribal people or outsiders living in tribal areas has been another unfortunate development. Undoubtedly , some of the outsiders like traders, money lenders, landlords and government officials have been a scourge of the tribal areas, but, over decades, many other outsiders peasants, workers, teachers, doctors and other middle- and lowermiddle-class personshave now settled there, outnumbering the tribals in almost all tribal areas outside the Northeast. The mass of the tribals and non-tribals are equally poor and have a common interest in economic and social development as also social and economic justice. Besides, most of the middle-class non-tribals, including many of the traders and industrialists, do perform useful economic functions in the tribal areas. Any undue antagonism and antipathy between the tribals and non-tribals would be inimical and even dangerous to both. It is no longer true that the only relationship that can exist between the two is an exploitative one. Tribals cannot expect to revert to isolation from their non-tribal neighbours or to prevent massive interaction with them, including their in-migration. In fact, the two can protect and promote their interests only through mutual cooperation. Tribals in the Northeast The tribes of north-eastern India, consisting of over a hundred groups, speaking a wide variety of languages and living in the hill tracts of Assam, shared many of the features and problems of the tribal people in the rest of the country . But their situation was different in several respects. For one, they constituted the overwhelming majority of the population in most of the areas they inhabited. Then, non-tribals had not penetrated these areas to any significant extent, though economic contacts between the tribal and the non-tribal areas had been developing over time. This was because of the British policy in the late nineteenth century . The tribal areas occupied by the British then formed part of the Assam province but were given a separate administrative status. Their socio-political structure was not disturbed and a deliberate policy of excluding the outsiders from the plains was followed. In particular, no nontribal plainsmen were allowed to acquire land in the tribal areas because of which the tribals

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