Volume : VI, Issue : XI, November - 2017

Impact of Globalization on Tribal Communities in India: A Study

B. Sd. Imran Pasha

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 India’s attempt to tackle the problems of income inequalities and poverty alleviation has been going on since independence under the centralized planning system which evidently failed. In the post globalization era, considering the size and diversity of the country, shrinking role of government would ultimately be a failure to achieve the set objective of socio-economic parity, equality in society. The Globalization has various dimensions which sometimes affect tribal communities positively and sometimes negatively. Since the emergence of liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG), the areas inhabited by tribal population have been subject to various protests due to involuntary displacement. Due to neoliberal economy, the arena of development has turned into unipolar. In the name of upgradation of lifestyle of poor indigenous tribal people, the market forces have created wealth for their interests at the cost of livelihood and security of these tribes in the areas.

 “IF you are totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of Globalization never comes to you”, these are the words of Mr Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of United States of America which are still applicable in today’s modern, 21st century world where the economy and multi-national supply and logistic chains which do not abide by the political boundaries have created a unique ‘economic model’ wherein the evidence of economic integration could be found; the results of which directly reflected in new economic era that flourished out of the need of Global Business Integration Mechanism Policy i.e. The Globalization..

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B.SD.IMRAN PASHA, Impact of Globalization on Tribal Communities in India: A Study, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6, ISSUE-11, NOVEMBER-2017


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