The Plight of Tribal Livelihood in the Context of Globalisation

V Srinivasa Rao; Boya Sree Manasa

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ga.v8i2.4

Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 70-75

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The Plight of Tribal Livelihood in the Context of Globalisation

V Srinivasa Rao¹, Boya Sree Manasa²

¹Associate Professor and Head, Centre for Regional Studies, School of Social Sciences, University
of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
²Ph.D. Research scholars, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, School of
Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Received Date:22 September 2019, Accepted Date:12 November 2019

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Most of the scheduled tribes live in rural areas, and their livelihood mainly depends on agriculture and forest. Forest and forest-based products remain as their primary resource subsistence. Their pattern of shifting cultivation replaced with settle farming. After the introduction of globalisation, the Indian economy opened its exports and imports to the global market. In the process, the intervention of non-tribal community to the tribal regions has become as one of the problematic policy issues to the traditional tribal communities. The traditional livelihood practices of the scheduled tribes in India affected due to extraction of natural resources. The state controls most of the natural resources that existed in the tribal regions without the consent of the local community. In the context of globalisation and its trajectories across the tribal regions, the current paper discusses how globalisation affects the traditional livelihood practices of the scheduled tribes in India.

Keywords: Tribal; Globalization; Forest

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