Hindu mode of tribal absorption 1-2

Hindu mode of tribal absorption. Effect of Hinduism on tribals

Lived in voluntary isolation butthead contact with outsiders haimendorf 1960.
Some absorb into tribal fold.
N K Bose book Hindu mode of tribal absorption 1941. Where tribals assimilate features of Hindu society. He found juangs of Odisha worshipping goddess Lakshmi and emulating Hindu rituals. But still eating beef. Since alienated by government from hunting and shifting cultivation and forest they started Bamboo basket making and started getting absorbed into caste system.
FG Bailey tribe caste Continuum concept. Surajit Sinha sachchida nand study of gonds getting Hindu traits.
Majumdar classified three tribes. First real primitive. Second primitive tribes with the degree of influence of Hindu caste. Third in the tribes

B.K. Roy Burman, for example, classifies

tribes as those (1) indifferent to Hindu society, (2) negatively oriented,

(3) positively oriented and (4) incorporated into Hindu society.

L.P. Vidyarthi too classifies tribes as those living in (1) forests, (2)

rural areas, (3) semi-acculturated, (4) acculturated and (5) assimi-

lated (Roy Burman 1970; Vidyarthi and Rai 1977).

some absorbed by industrialization and urbanization hinduization. Bhumij show caste features.
G s ghurye called them backward Hindus.

Effects. Security of livelihood. Discrimination and exploitation. Lower status of women. Caste evil of untouchability. Inferiority complex. Educated tribals asserting identity in Jharkhand.

Today sanskritization is not observed. dominant caste want lower status de sanskritization the let's asserting their own identity TV channel scholars media and tribals want autonomy E and young educated tribals asserting their identity protecting themselves.