LEVELS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND VARIATIONS IN EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION PRACTICES AMONG CASTES AND TRIBES OF ANDHRA PRADESH: AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH STUDY

In rural India levels of social exclusion and inclusion vary from one social group to another social group and also from one ethnic group to another based on the ecological, geographical, social, cultural and economic factors. An individual or groups of individuals in any excluded social group or ethnic group invariably encounter the problem of exclusion in daily life. Moreover it is contextual and situational intertwined with the geographically culturally inbuilt mechanism. The forms of exclusion also differ from one ethnic group to another living in different social environments, geographical and economic conditions. This empirical research work paper presents the levels of social exclusion, mechanism, forms and variations in between the stratified caste society and egalitarian tribal society. The level of social exclusion at each excluded social group definitely correlates and corresponds with the development status of it in the caste based society of India, in specific to Rural India, Rural Andhra Pradesh. The empirical field work based observations in three multi caste villages of Manduru, Morampudi and Vedullapalle as well as in three multi tribal villages of Pasuvulabanda, Kolapari and Lammasingi, located in the newly carved Andhra Pradesh state have been presented in this research article. It is descriptive in nature and comprises Anthropological qualitative explanations with both etic and emic perspectives.