Poverty and Social Exclusion in India : Adivasis
This brief describes the poverty and social exclusion of the tribal groups in India. Tribal groups or Adivasis are considered to be the earliest inhabitants of India. While India is widely considered a success story in terms of growth and poverty...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/390061491903376547/Issue-brief-poverty-and-social-exclusion-in-India-adivasis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26335 |
| Summary: | This brief describes the poverty and
social exclusion of the tribal groups in India. Tribal
groups or Adivasis are considered to be the earliest
inhabitants of India. While India is widely considered a
success story in terms of growth and poverty reduction,
Adivasis in 2004–2005 were twenty years behind the average.
Scheduled Tribes are often conflated with Scheduled Castes
in the development literature, although they are completely
different social categories. Physical remoteness and smaller
numbers have gone together with political isolation and low
voice in decision making for the Scheduled Tribes. There
have been measures to assure defacto autonomy and self-rule
to Adivasis, but implementation has been patchy. More
discussion of tribal aspirations and problems from their
point of view is needed, rather than an examination of such
issues through the lens of policy makers, the bureaucracy,
or the civil society. |
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