India is a land of diversities. While tribes could be integrated into a single unit-distinct from the mainstream society, they are highly diverse among themselves. Administering the tribes in the country has never been an easy task despite having specific policy-formulations, separate administrative machinery, budgetary allocations, and fixed targets over a period of seven decades. Over the years, there have been a number of high-powered committees that have studied tribal issues, on the basis of which several Acts have been passed and modifications made in the existing Acts.
India is a land of diversities. While tribes could be integrated into a single unit-distinct from the mainstream society, they are highly diverse amon...