Socio-cultural Background and Changes of Santal Society in West Bengal
Abstract
Socio-cultural changes are the very important issues in the society. Basically, in the Adivasi society among the socio-cultural changes are highly crucial environmental situation. The Adivasis or Tribal population is identified as the aboriginal inhabitants of our country. There are numbers of tribes living all over India as well as various parts in the World. The ‘Adivasi’ construct up 10.4 per cent of India’s population (Census 2011). In this qualitative paper the other studies in depth socio-cultural background and changes of Santal or Scheduled Tribe people from different published literature.
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