Implementation of Governmental Policy and Cultural Transformation: A Case Study on Birhor Tribe in Bagmundi Block Under the District of Purulia of West Bengal

It is very difficult to define the term “Culture”, however simply it denotes the tastes, traditions, beliefs, rituals, values, thoughts, knowledge, behavior and after all social learning of one or a group of people. Since the beginning of human civilization, each and every community has been bearing its distinctive cultural identity and trying to save it as a matter of sentiment. In this way, diversities are found among heterogeneous group of people worldwide in the form of cultural variation. But due to Modernization, Globalization lead to rapid changes of traditional indigenous culture. Among the 698 Scheduled tribes in India, Birhoris one of them. Birhor are traditionally hunter and gatherer and live in the forest of Chota Nagpur plateau. Birhor were indigenous practices of culture but due to governmental forest law and wildlife protection act force to shift Birhor habitation in plain area under rehabilitation programmed. Afterword in contacts with neighbor modern people Birhor culture gradually changes. In this paper highlighted the nature of change within Birhor culture.