Cultural Identify And Social Assimilation Analysis

4.8. Cultural Identify and Social Assimilation:
This research study also attempted to examine this component in a “heterogeneous community” where tribal families live along with other social groups. And it is observed that where tribal concentration is of reasonable size, they stay together in a hamlet within the geographical boundary of the revenue village. In this way they maintain their tribal identity and keep their culture intact among themselves. But tribal social assimilation is restricted in nature leaving a few situations like common village festival and life cycle events. The study also observed that apart from independent identity, there is a community sentiment and we feeling among all the community members in relation to common
Through this relationship the SCs have developed admission to markets and the standards of trade. In contrast the STs have conventionally lives apart from mainstream society, needy on forest produce and small holdings of land in more remote areas. Over the time, the SCs have engaged control of land formerly cultured by the SC, despite the official exclusion over the transfer of land title from ST to non-STs. And this has resulted in major divergences that have in case taken a aggressive turn. During this procedure, the some SCs in coastal Orissa have shifted residence away from their native villages and in the process have lost some of the conventional stigma . As the process of encroachment in to tribal regions has progress, the SC have assumed the role of traders in goods such as salt, oil, cosmetics, and forest produce, acting as mediators between the STs and the market of the
Apart from this, a number of development programs are designed which address both tribal and non-tribal sections. But, as the concentration of tribal in the study districts is comparatively less, several special tribal development supplies are not obtainable like functioning of tribal sub-plan, ITDA intervention, implementation of MADA schemes, special Revised Long Term Action Plan Projects [RLTAP] etc. and a number of common plans are there like National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Public Distribution System etc. which is equally important for all sections of people including tribal. So, in case where there is less thrust of tribal development schemes due to earlier mentioned reasons, the available projects, programs, schemes may suitably crafted favoring the tribal section living in specific pockets or in a scattered