The isolationist debate regarding tribals argued protection from:

(A) Money lenders
(B) Traders
(C) Police
(D) Industry

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) and (B) only

The correct answer is Option (4) → (A) and (B) only

The famous isolation versus integration debate of the 1940s built upon this 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.