Tribal Culture of Madhya Pradesh

has a substantial Tribal population. The differences in the tribal community, spread over in various parts of the state, is clearly seen not only on the basis of their heredity, lifestyle and cultural traditions, but also from their social, economic structure, religious beliefs and their language and speech. Due to the different linguistic, cultural and geographical environment, and its peculiar complications, the diverse tribal world of Madhya Pradesh has been largely cut-off from the mainstream of development.

Tribes of Madhya Pradesh have preserved their culture and tradition despite outside cultural influence. Their culture is distinguished by the composite remains of the Scythian and Dravidian culture. The tribes of Madhya Pradesh are widely oriented towards religion and spiritualism. Their prevalent religion is Animism. Although under the influence of modern day trends and tradition, these tribes in the state of Madhya Pradesh even adopt other religious practices namely Christianity, Jainism and  Islam.

Quite a number of tribes of this state have also taken up the religious practice of Hinduism. The tribal population of Madhya Pradesh has carried on the practice of farming and cultivation. In order to supplement their income, some of these tribal groups become laborers in factories, industries etc. In order to preserve this cultural heritage, centre as well as state govt. is running various policies and programmes for upliftment of these tribesmen. In Madhya Pradesh also so many programmes are under way to improve overall health and socio economic status of these tribal people.

Hence it would be fitting to assess the psycho-motor, physical and physiological characteristics of senior secondary boys. It would also be interesting to know the impact of tribal welfare programmes on different pockets. Hence, Alirajpur and Jhabua have been chosen as study area in the present study. The variables chosen for the present study were psycho-motor, physical fitness and physiological variables. The importance of these variables in terms of overall development of student is very well know because lack of psycho motor ability and total fitness is not only detrimental to academic excellence of students but also day to day functioning in life.

Apart from this, psycho-motor and fitness also plays an important role in allied fields chosen for their future career by the students. Hence, the topic for the present study is justified in so many contexts. Firstly, the study provides comparative figures of psycho-motor, physical fitness and physiological capacity of tribal boys studying in senior secondary schools of two pockets of Madhya Pradesh i.e. Alirajpur and Jhabua were tribal population is aplenty; and the study will also provide the implementation of tribal policies in two selected districts of Madhya Pradesh. 3 In view of the above the researcher decided to compare psychomotor, physical fitness and physiological variables of tribal boys from Alirajpur and Jhabua secondary school boys.