• DR.NIRMAL CHANDRA MUDI

Abstract Jungal Mahals, literally ,Jungale estate’, was a district formed by the British possessions and some dependent chiefdoms lying between Birbhum,Bankura,Midnapore and the hilly area of country of Chhotanagpur in what is now the Indian state of West Bengal.The area of Jungal Mahals is mostly populated by the Santhal tribes.But not only the Santhals but also some microscopic tribal community resides in this region such as Sabar and Birhor from the very beginning.They maintain exclusively purity of tribal identity through the ages.They are the oldest inhabitants of Jungal Mahals and have their own separate identity in the social perspectives.We are very much familiar of their primitive culture.But at the same time we must say they have lost their cultural identity and this cultural purity is gradually going and going on to the back side due to the bad impact of cultural globalisation. Similarly,tribals community created their own village economy at the early periods.It was their original village oriented economy organised by the Headman.But with the advent of British power in this geographical area,the tribal society had lost their originality of economic system and faced various challenges of their socio-economic life.Inspite of having separate religion of Santhals (Sari Dharam)has been converted to other religion by experience.Through this papers I will try to highlight some important changing profile of selected tribal communities in south west Bengal.

Keywords :Jungle Mahals,Tribal Identy,Society,Traditional Economy,Religious crisis.Present status

"Transformation of Socio-Economic Condition of Tribal Community in frontier Bengal : Identity crisis and present scenario ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no.667-673, October-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810885.pdf

"Transformation of Socio-Economic Condition of Tribal Community in frontier Bengal : Identity crisis and present scenario ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no. pp667-673, October-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810885.pdf