Issue, Challenge and Development Problems in Socio, Economic and Culture of Tribal People in Assam

Abstract

Tribals are known to be the autochthonous people of the land. Tribals are refer to “vanavasi”, “pahari”, AnuchuchitJanajati etc. India is the second largest tribal people in the world and the first one in Africa. The areas inhabitated by the tribal constituted a significant part of the underdeveloped areas of the country. The tribal people have rich tradition culture and heritage with unique life style and customs though regional variation. The tribal culture of India and their traditions and practices pervaded almost all of the aspects of Indian culture and civilization.Tribal is the dominant community of Assam. They possess rich distinct culture and tradition related with nature which is the store house for wisdom and knowledge for other communities. Their contribution in socio-economic development is not negligible. Mostly state and society in Assam is influenced by tribals. Their district culture tradition practices isolated them from other communities. The socio-economic condition of tribal is not satisfactory through they are hard worker. Tribals are still backward in all fields, their working method way of thinking all are traditional, marginal. Marginal productivity accompanied by traditional method of cultivation of tribals are equal to zero. Illiteracy, poverty, child marriage, ill healthy etc. are also dominant problems of tribals. In this paper an attempt is made to highlight the various problems of Tribal people and to suggested measures for their development.