Pace of Development

Local tribal people ................ develop at their own pace. This is not the usual story of tribal extinction by evil outside moneylenders because the inner line permit prevents it. In fact it’s an amazingly cosmopolitan society, ......... So although they are protected , they seem to want the same kind of development as the rest of India and to become less and less exceptional as times goes on and the economy is at a stage of free for all – plundering nature on the one hand and the state on the other.

Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford Univ., The Land of the Sun, Oct 2007