A tribe refers to a stage of social formation in an evolutionary scheme of development of technology, knowledge and capacity for centric of the forces of nature method of transmission of the same perception of man’s relationship with man and with nature and scale of organisation of social group further a tribe can outgrow its primitive and maintain its social ground any and essential features of identity.
Historical process of formation of tribes has been the progressive advancement towards asperity of entities called nation –states societies and enters to indicate the dichotomy of tribal and non-tribal category more than a technology or occupation it is a words view an identification and a scale of that matter in catenations the people as an tribals a non-tribals organization in day there are numerous nation states every nation state multiplicity of ethnic groups including the tribals in almost all nation states expect Saudi Arabia the non-tribals comprise the dominant ethnic group caustically and population the tribe is a peripheral ethnic group in all nation states Saudi Arabia the nation- states like Russia. China and Iran have developed out of an amalgamation of indigenous populations on the entrant the nation –states such as of the colonization and domination of the native population by an outside population the outside population the nation state as its own after overrunning the indigenous population.
The term tribe has always been used in the context if primary ethnic groups those, which are the native inhabitants of a territory As tribe is no longer synonymous with primitiveness but only with identity or ethnicity. The term ethnic group enchants all those groups “Who conceive themselves as being alike by virtue of their common ancestry, real or fictitious and those who are so regarded by others Nation- states and tribals . In the earliest times the various ethnic groups, especially the tribals who occupied the more inhospitable and marginal areas away from civilization were largely ignored. The two factors that have pushed the tribals and non-tribals in active interaction have been the spread of European colonization and the emergence of modern nation –states.
Russia, China, India and Middle East under the feudal rule maintained various types of policies regarding their tribal populations the feudals did not go beyond collections of revenues and maintenance of some semblance of order. The income from tribal economies was not visualized as remunerative to the state
hence in China, India Russia and Iran, the state and tribal interactions were not integrative. The tribes, being by definition ethnically restrict and autonomous were never integrated into any consolidated state machinery. The regions inhabited by the tribals became important only when in the course of industrial development and in the political content of the nation state their population and the mineral reserves under their contract became important for adding to the political and economic strength of the dominant ethnic group.