Scheduled Tribes Essay

Scheduled tribes position in India Looking at the social system scheduled tribes was been treated as the lowest rank in the society and have suffered from various socio economic disabilities and their status classified as follows:
Occupational status: The scheduled castes were known for their long association with the so called impure, unclean, socially looked down and least preferred occupations. Many untouchables follows the inherited occupations such as the scavenging, carcass recovery and faying and hide tanning, leather work, drum beating and grave digging. These occupations that was associated with them barred social intercourse between them and the higher caste Hindus in the frame work of traditional Indian society. Looking into the occupation of Scheduled tribes it can be said that they were economically poor and generally dependant on the agricultural labor and other low income occupation besides their caste occupations in the rural areas and unorganized non-agricultural wages laborers cart pullers, civic sanitation workers in urban areas.
Educational status: The scheduled tribes also suffered from long term educational disabilities. Historically they had been the most uneducated and illiterate group. The mass illiteracy among them was in turn …show more content…
They follow many simple occupations with simple technology. Most of the occupation falls into the primary occupations such as hunting, gathering, and agriculture. The technology they use for these purposes belong to the most primitive kind. There is no profit in making such economy and hence their per capita income is very meager, much lesser than the Indian average. Most of them live under abject poverty and are in debt mostly in the hands of local moneylenders and Zamindars. In order to repay the debt they often mortgage or sell their land to the moneylenders. Indebtedness is almost inevitable and heavy interest is to be paid to these moneylenders causing