“The argument for a tribe-caste distinction was founded on an assumed cultural difference between Hindu castes, with their beliefs in purity and pollution and hierarchical integration, and ‘animist’ tribals with their more egalitarian and kinship based modes of social organisation.”
Which of the following is not a characteristic of tribal communities?
a) Egalitarian organisation
b) Kinship based mode of social organisation
c) Animists
d) Organised religion
