Transition, Change and Transformation: Impacting the Tribes in India

The studies on social change and transformation entailed in this volume reveal an interesting phenomenon. In spite of conscious involvement of the tribes in adopting many cultural traits of the neighbouring larger caste ridden society, they, however, do not totally forgo their tribal identity. There is an urge of the tribes of India to project themselves as one of the components of the local/regional culture, through acceptance of many elements of cultural traits of the neighbouring communities, modification of some aspects of their own traditional cultural contents or even by dropping a few items of their age-old tradition, which pose some constraints towards their induction in the neighbouring culture as its essential components.