Which of the following is described as one of the key issues that bind tribal movements from different parts of the country?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Alienation of tribals from forest lands
Option (1) Alienation of tribals from forest lands — Correct. The alienation of tribals from forest lands is one of the key issues that binds tribal movements across the country. This is why ecological issues are central to tribal movements.
Option (2) Opposition to missionary activity in tribal areas — Incorrect. Opposition to missionary activity is not one of the issues that bind tribal movements. In Jharkhand, Christian missionaries in fact helped the movement by spreading literacy among adivasis.
Option (3) Demand for tribal languages in schools — Incorrect. A demand for tribal languages in schools is not the issue that binds tribal movements. The common thread is ecological, the loss of forest lands, with identity and inequality as the other concerns.
Option (4) Demand for reservation in government jobs — Incorrect. Reservation in government jobs is not the issue that binds tribal movements. Government jobs appear in the Jharkhand story only as the route by which literate adivasis formed a middle-class leadership.
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