THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF INDIA: VICTIMS OF WRITTEN TRADITIONS
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Keywords:
Inhabitants, Victims, Written, TraditionsAbstract
In the 77th Indian Science Congress held at Cochln in February 1990 a question was raised: Can we substitute the term 'tribe/iidiviisi' with 'dalit'? The argument was that the word 'tribe' is an administrative invention used by outsiders; 'dalit' is a more generic term depicting the deplorable conditions of a people who are at the bottom of Indian society
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