U. Kupputhai ¹, N. Mallika ¹

Affiliations
1 Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed University, Coimbatore 641 043, IN

Abstract

In India tribals are neglected a lot, discriminated in terms of income distribution and social status. Most of them are desperately poor, backward, generally uneducated and lead a hard and miserable life. There are more than 400 tribal communities in India, out of which 75 Primitive Tribal Groups (PTG) have been identified by the government by 1989.

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