Colonial idea of tribes:
Tribes were the original and isolated inhabitants of the forests Animist people who hated intrusion of outsiders into their life
Assumed that tribes always lived in a hostile society that had exploited them, so the tribals were not able to look after their own interests
Demarcation of tribal areas into protected zones under the GOI Act 1935 showed that the tribals had become completely dependent on the welfare measures of the state to meet their basic needs.
1870 -
1874 - Scheduled District Act to give effect to the Government of India Act 1870. 1919 - Certai
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their contact with the outside world should be reduced to the minimum.