The concept of modernization refers to the process of social change, in which the individual imbibes certain attitudinal cum-personality traits conducive to socio-economic and political development as well as individual self actualization. These traits have been labelled as modernity. The tribal population has low health status and health modernity because of their ruralness, illiteracy, poverty and not because of their tribalness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ajay Kumar Singh
Dr. A.K. Singh obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History of Art from the Banaras Hindu University. Since 1976 he has been engaged in carrying out researches on the art of Trans-Himalayan regions with the Bharat Kala Bhavan, the Art and Archaeology Museum of the same university. Dr. Singh has undertaken extremely adventurous and painstaking journeys to explore the historical and archaeological potentialities of the difficult terrains. He was awarded Senior Research Fellowship by the U.G.C. He has many research articles to his credit. He is presently a lecturer in History of Art, in the Faculty of Visual Arts in the Banaras Hindu University.
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