Understanding the Indian Tribal Life and their Issues

Abstract

Tribal community in India has been the most vulnerable community. Their fundamental human rights are violated in every step of life. Tribals are backward and poor, living in naturally isolated regional inhabitant. Tribals in remote areas are still devoid of common infrastructure facilities of road and communication, health and education and safe drinking water and sanitation, which do not allow them to absorb technological and financial help provided by government. Scheduled tribes are indications of primitive traits, distinctive culture, geographical isolation, shyness of contact with the community at large, and backwardness. The tribal population of the country is 10.43 crore, constituting 8.61% of the total population. Madhya Pradesh  has  the  largest  number  of  ST‟s  contributing  14.69%  to  the  total  percentage  of  ST population of India.The paper tries to understand the different aspects of Indian tribal life, like distribution of tribes in India, history of tribes, etc. The paper highlighted the major issues like, social, religious, educational, health related problems and many more. The researcher also recommended some suggestions regarding the issues or challenges of tribes.