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The People of India Project of Anthropological Survey of India discussing the Gond tribe states that The Statutory panchayats are elected bodies. These however have their activities limited to planning and implementation of welfare and developmental activities at village level. Apparently there is no clash between traditional Gond leadership and the statutory panchayat as yet […]

Every organism including human being responds to structural and functional characteristics of its environment through adaptability which in turn results into better survival and evolution. Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace (1858) famously proposed that positive selection could explain the many marvelous adaptations that suit organisms to their environments and lifestyles, and this simple process remains […]

Aspects related to legal regulations of Tribes and tribal areas (1) Laws and policies enacted by the Parliament and State Legislatures should not be automatically applied in the Fifth Schedule areas (as was the case under colonial rule or as is presently the case in the Sixth Schedule areas). Its applicability should be made contingent on the discretion […]

Types of family Family can be defined in three different ways- Structure , Function and Change I.Perspectives of structure Nuclear –The nuclear family consists of a married man and woman with their off-spring although in individual cases one or more additional persons may reside with them. Monogamous- Family is based on monogamous marriage, ie, marriage […]

I. Prescriptive marriage- where the rules prescribe whom a person should marry. Violation of the rule attracts sanctions. These are of two types. Exogamy : This term was first time used by McLenon. It means marriage outside a particular group. It varies from society to society. As per Hicks and Gwynne “social rule that one […]