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Understanding Underdevelopment: A Study on Select Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh

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Arunachal Pradesh, the erstwhile NEFA, is the homeland for 26 tribes and many smaller tribes that have gained substantial ethnographic attention during the colonial to post-colonial phase. Though this tribal state has undergone a meaningful transformation, one can notice significant inter-tribal or intra-tribal inequalities in contemporary developmental initiatives. This paper attempts to analyse how various factors hamper the progress of tribal communities in one of the most backward districts of Arunachal Pradesh. The investigation into core internal causes of continuing underdevelopment will help to know why the people of this backward district of Arunachal Pradesh have lagged in economic development and why its further progress is confusing.

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  1. Department of Tribal Studies, Arunachal Pradesh University, Pasighat, 791 103, Arunachal Pradesh, India

    Tarh Ramya

  2. Department of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Doimukh, 791 112, Arunachal Pradesh, India

    Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri

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Ramya, T., Chaudhuri, S.K. (2024). Understanding Underdevelopment: A Study on Select Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. In: Chakrabarti, A., Chakraborty, G., Chakraborty, A.S. (eds) Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability. Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development, vol 18. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1436-0_9

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