Tribal Culture and Their Social Upliftment in India

Contents: Preface. 1. Celebration of tribal and analogous cultures. 2. Globalization and tribes of Northeast India. 3. Education and social upliftment of tribals. 4. Dams and tribal people in India. 5. Globalization identity and culture: tribal issues in India. 6. Cultural diversity, religious syncretism and people of India: an anthropological interpretation. 7. Dimensions of tribal health in India. 8. Education of tribal children in India and the issue of medium of instruction. 9. Tribal traditional urban art practices: contextuality and transcendence. 10. Tribal women in local governance. 11. Christianity and tribal religion in Jharkhand: procalamation, self definition and transformation.12. Consumerism in tribal India. 13. Socio-economic upliftment of tribal communities in Jharkhand through agroforestry based farming. 14. Situations of religion in India. 15. Tribal women’s livelihood in forest based industries in rural India. 16. Status of religion in tribal areas, 17. Anti colonial tribal movements in India. Bibliography.

Among the 68 million citizens of India who are members of tribal groups, the religious concepts terminologies and practices are as varied as the hundreds of tribes, but members of these groups have one thing in common: they are under constant pressure from the major organized religions. One of the most studied tribal religious is that of the Santhal of Orissa, Bihar, and West Bengal one of the largest tribes in India, having a population estimated at 4.2 million. According to the 1991 census, however, only 23645 people listed Santal as their religious belief.