The Intensity of Deterioration among the Scheduled Tribes at the Shadow of Globalisation- A Study of Kerala

Globalization has become a new term for signifying dramatic changes in the nature of international relations in the latter part of 20th century and dawning of 21st century. Globalization conveys many meanings and things emphasizing a global rather than a national context. It is something like a process by which it redefines the world affairs especially in relations between states. In other words it is the process of increasing interconnectedness between societies such that events in one part of the world have effects on peoples and societies far away. Globalization denotes expanding scale, growing magnitude, speeding up and deepening impact of transcontinental flows and patterns of social interaction. It refers a shift or transformation in the scale of human organization that keeps links among distant communities and expands the reach of power relations across the world’s regions and continents. But it does not pose as a universal process of global integration, in which there is growing convergence of cultures and civilization. As an economic term, it denotes the acceleration of the international connections in the global economy in the last few decades and the emergence of global corporations and relatively open international financial markets6. The word also invokes themes of cultural union as a result of media and electronic interconnections from satellite broad cast, television, fax machines, cyber space etc.Globalisation is the integration of Economic, political and cultural systems across the glob