As per the famous isolation versus integration debate on tribal Societies, the isolationists believe that : (1) Tribals were backward Hindus (2) Addressing their problems as similar to OBC (3) Providing welfare schemes (4) Protecting tribals from getting detribalised as landless labour

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The famous isolation versus integration debate of the 1940s built upon the standard picture of tribal societies as isolated wholes. The isolationist side argued that tribals needed protection from traders, moneylenders and Hindu and Christian missionaries, all of whom were intent on reducing tribals to detribalised landless labour. The integrationists, on the other hand, argued that tribals were merely backward Hindus, and their problems had to be addressed within the same framework as that of other backward classes.