Changing profile of the South Gujarat Tribal Villages
International Journal of Development Research
Changing profile of the South Gujarat Tribal Villages
Received 10th February, 2022; Received in revised form 19th March, 2022; Accepted 20th April, 2022; Published online 20th May, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Raj Mahla, Yashang Patel and Alka Parikh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study takes off from the previous studies conducted in 1987 and 2005 by different Institutes, reporting the prevailing situation in the South Gujarat region, consisting of Vansada, Dharampur, and Kaprada. It finds that there has indeed been a sustaining change in the region – it has freed itself from many characteristics of a backward region like hunger, stress migration, illiteracy and such. The authors feel that most of the economic changes happened because of the development of some sources of irrigation that enabled the villagers to take two crops a year. Exposure to the outside world must have changed other mentalities like giving up alcoholism and stressing education for children.