Question
Write a brief note on the ‘indigenous people’ in India.
Solution
(i)In India ‘indigenous people’ are referred to as ‘Scheduled Tribes’ who constitute nearly eight percent of the population of the country.
(ii) Most indigenous populations in India depend for their subsistence primarily on the cultivation of land.
(iii) They enjoy a constitutional protection in political representation, they have not got much of the benifits of development in the country.
(iv)In fact they have paid huge cost for development since they are the single largest group among the people displaced by various developmental projects since independence.
