“Forced incorporation of tribal communities into mainstream processes has had its impact on tribal culture and society as much as its economy.” Elaborate.

The term ‘Tribe’ refers to the communities which are very old and ancient. These communities didn’t practice or believe in any religion, don’t have any state or political form, no class-divisions and don’t have any caste system. Moreover, the term is used for administrative convenience.

Yes, it is true that “Forced incorporation of tribal communities into mainstream processes has had its impact on tribal culture and society as much as its economy.” Tribal communities have to involve in the interaction processes to create their identity rather than continuing with their ancient characteristics or identity. Incorporating themselves into mainstream processes is the only choice to create their identity. However, it didn’t result in favour of tribal communities, so today; they express themselves in the form of resistance against the world of non-tribal people.

Some of the examples of the positive effect of their successes are –

• The tribal communities of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh after great efforts attained the status of being recognised as an independent state but facing continuous problems. They still don’t have any political system but is connected to the other autonomous structures where these tribal communities have no power.

• In the North-eastern states of India, the tribal people are living under the special laws which limit their rights as compared to other citizens of the country. Tribal people of states like Nagaland or Manipur don’t have similar rights as other as their areas have been declared as ‘disturbed areas’. Due to all this oppression of the state, they expressed in the form of resistance which further ignited the rebellions which not only had its impact on tribal culture and society but in the economy too.