In this essay, Dr. Pingali Gopal tries to understand how the narrative surrounding the continuing debate on the status of the tribals of India and how they connect to 'mainstream' Hinduism, which he believes is solely aimed at breaking India, is playing out in the legal, constitutional, social, and religious contexts.
This book by Sudha Mohan breaks many of the myths surrounding the ‘caste system’. A deep study of the book helps one to realize that the various groups across the country—the ‘forward’ castes, the ‘backward’ castes, the ‘scheduled’ castes, and the scheduled ‘tribes’ are the diverse jatis with all kinds of practices, an array of flowers in the same garden of India as Hindus.