Bio Cultural Development of Scheduled Tribes : Policies and Issues

Contents: Introduction. 1. Understanding tribes and their socio-cultural ethos for a sustainable policy for their development/S.N. Ratha. 2. Policies and issues in the bio-cultural development of scheduled tribes/P.K. Misra. 3. Applied anthropology development and cultural diversity/P.R.G. Mathur. 4. The concept  of tribe in the Indian context/T.B. Subba. 5. Tribal development and security of land/P. Ishwara Bhat. 6. Tribal development in north-east India vis-a-vis national integration: an overview/R.K. Kar. 7. Genetic architecture of Indian people/V.R. Rao and A. Cahndrasekar. 8. Bio cultural aspect of sickle cell trait in tribal populations of India/R.S. Negi. ...

Notwithstanding the attention paid to the welfare of India's scheduled tribes during the six and a half decades of independence, these tribes are still at the bottom level of human development within the country. They are gradually being dispossessed of whatever resources they had under their control in the past. In fact, the modern development paradigm cannot address the problems of these people and there is an urgent need for an alternative paradigm.

This present book, which is an outcome of a national seminar in India, discusses this lack of development among the country's scheduled tribes. The book contains papers on nutrition and growth, tribal economy, tribal development, the concept of tribe, health care, disease, etc. promises to be of immense value for social scientists policy makers and administrators. (jacket)