Tribal studies in India have been experiencing ideological and socio-political upheavals vis-à-vis taken serious turns. Comparative studies are done reflecting the complex aspects like tribe-caste interaction, habitation, ecological setting and other aspects of their life. Theories and methods developed continuously reflect that tribal studies do not remain confine within the stipulated boundaries and approaches of social anthropologists and sociologists only, rather scholars from other disciplines too show tremendous interests to re-look into the issues and problems of the tribes. The ‘Isolationist approach’ of Verrier Elwin, the ‘Assimilationist approach’ of G.S Ghurye and the ‘Integrationist approach’ propounded by Jawaharlal Nehru by now is seriously reviewed and re-written. This paper highlights these major Approaches are how far relevant in Contemporary period.