Tribals and their Aboriginality: A Dimension of Indian Society

India is the hub of tribal population in the world. The tribal world in India remained comparatively placid till the advent of the British. The world knows the Tribals in India form a large part of Indian population. They have their own tradition, culture, customs, costumes and religions. They are not migrants and have not come from any foreign lands. It is a common knowledge and unfortunate that they have not yet joined the mainstream of our society. The colonial system bore harshly on the tribal communities who were formed out of isolation and relatively intact social mechanism of control; they revolted more often than not and much more brutally than to the rest of the community counting Indian peasants. About the aboriginality of the Indian tribes, different view has been expressed by different authorities. Actually the tribals to be the pre-Aryan inhabitants of India and ‘the remnants of primitive communities which have, so far, escaped absorption and have preserved in a modified but still distinguishable shape, their independent tribal existence.