Tribal\'s and Social Inclusion: Between Culture and Development

Native/Tribal development has been given one of the major special handling by all the Governments in India during all five year plans on explanation of the socio-economic backwardness of the tribes. Tribes are at the bottom of social and political stepladder in India. Articulation of development processes will not only lead to appropriate solutions but it also helps in sensitizing field workers who in the past often held a negative stereotype about tribals.