A TRIBE is a collection of families having a common name, speaking a common] dialect, occupying or professing to occupy a common territory and is not usually endogamous, though originally it might have been so.-Imperial Gazetteer of India
A TRIBE is a group of people in a primitive or barbarous stage of development acknowledging the authority of a chief and usually regarding them as having a common ancestor. –Oxford Dictionary.
In its simplest form the tribe is a group of bands occupying a contiguous territory or territories and having a feeling of unity deriving from numerous similarities in culture, frequent contacts, and a certain commonality of interest. –Ralph Linton.
A TRIBE is an independent political division of a population with a common culture. -Lucy Mair.
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A TRIBE is a group united by a common name in which the members take pride by a common language, by a common territory, and by a feeling that all who do not share this name are outsiders, ‘enemies’ in fact. –G. W.B. Htmtingford.
A TRIBE is a social group with territorial affiliation, endogamous, with no specialization of functions, ruled by tribal officers, hereditary or otherwise, united in language or dialect, recognizing social distance with other tribes or castes, without any social obloquy attaching to them, as it does in the caste structure, following tribal traditions, beliefs and customs, illiberal of naturalization of ideas from alien sources, above all conscious of homogeneity of ethnic and territorial integration.
-D.N. Majumdar.