SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF MIGRATED BANJARA TRIBAL WOMEN IN ANDHRA PRADESH WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO RAYALASEEMA BANJARAS

India is known for cultural diversity. As our country is an ethnological museum it has several social groups, governed by the Varna system.  One among them is the Banjaras. Banjaras is the biggest ethnic tribal group of India. They occupy the approximate 11% of the total Indian population they spread  all over the country and 6% of this community can be illiterate, ill health, seasonal unemployment, liquor addiction  seen in state of Andhra Pradesh. They are mainly dependent on monsoon agriculture. As drought prevailed in some areas due to utter poverty and highly deplorable livelihood, they started migrating from their native lands. As they move on to towns and cities in search for food and shelter. They were manipulated by the agencies, mediators. As a result most of the tribal people, especially the Banjaras entered into the heinous fields like prostitution, labour, robbery etc. They became the victims and are exclude from the main stream of social life even after 70 years of Indian independence. They are not blessed with adequate infrastructural facilities civic amenities and other opportunities for their integrated development. Due to certain constraints they have remained educationally, socially, culturally, politically and economically very weak in these modern times. It has to go a long way in achieving the goal of absolute educational, social and economic transformation. The present paper deals with the issues and Challenges of migrated banjara women in Andhra Pradesh. 
 
KEYWORDS:
 Tribal’s, Migration, Banjaras, Deplorable Livelihood, Poverty, Cultural.

Introduction The genesis of land alienation began from the new pattern of social transformation taken by the tribal society.  It is characterized by the forces of modernization and migration.  One of the structural features of social formation and modernization is the occurrences of migration among the tribal's.  Demographically speaking, the economic non-viability of land acts as push factor to send the tribal's to industrial towns and cities for earning a livelihood.  This depeasantised working class is found in factories, hotels and business centers.  Tribal migration is somewhat different from migration among nontribal's, both at national and international levels. In terms of migration, the level of place of origin is backward, mostly illiterate and vulnerable to all kinds of exploitation and also tribal are exposed to a new kind of social structure and cultural system.  

Migration of Tribal Women and Girls Most of the tribal women and girls are illiterate and unskilled. Along with men, these women and girls also migrate to urban towns and cities. They face a number of problems in the big cities in India as the social and cultural system is totally different. Their housing conditions are miserable; economically they are still poor and financially and sexually exploited in the big cities. A great number of these


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