The Munda are tribal (Adivasi) people of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. They are found across much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Odisha ‚ West Bengal‚ Chhattisgahr ‚ Bihar and into parts of Bangladesh. Their language is Mundari‚ which belongs to the Munda subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family * Mostly Munda people follow the Sarna religion‚ believing in a god called Singbonga. * However one-fourth of them have adopted Christianity.[citation needed] * The surname
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Tribal Displacement and Human Rights Violation Introduction After the Independence‚ India was engaged in a nation-building process. Nation building was equated with modernization and fast development of infrastructure and economic conditions of the people and the country as a whole. The question is that the development activities should give space for the protection of the rights of the Tribal people and the prosperity or greater good for the larger numbers? The pursuit of development has in present
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Bibliography: Khandare‚ L. (2004). Korku Adivasis in Melghat Region of Maharashtra. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences‚ Indian Institute of Technology Bombay . Misra‚ K. K. (2000). Study on Land Alienation in Scheduled Areas of Andhra Pradesh. NIRD-UNDP Research Project. Rao‚ M. K. (1999)
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Contributions to Indian Sociology http://cis.sagepub.com/ The social and ecological effects of industrialisation in a tribal region: The case of the Rourkela Steel Plant Rajkishor Meher Contributions to Indian Sociology 2003 37: 429 DOI: 10.1177/006996670303700302 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cis.sagepub.com/content/37/3/429 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Contributions to Indian Sociology can be found
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Indian Handicraft Handicrafts are mostly defined as "Items made by hand‚ often with the use of simple tools‚ and are generally artistic and/or traditional in nature. They are also objects of utility and objects of decoration." The Indian handicrafts are known the world over for their rich variety‚ grace‚ elegance and skilled. Excavations conducted in different parts of India prove that India in various periods had unmemorable handicrafts. The ruins and remains unearthed from Mohan-Jo-Daro prove
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Title-Growing Educated Citizenry of Tribal Community in Himachal Pradesh- A Panacea for Human Resource Development *Rama Sharma **Dr. Jai Singh Parmar *Rama Sharma *Assistant Professor‚ Manav Bharti University‚ SOLAN‚ H.P. E-mail: rama83_icon31@rediffmail.com‚ sharma.rama1983@gmail.com‚ Mob.-9418246110 Postal Address: c/o Shezeb Khan‚ Khan Building‚ Near Jwala Mata Mandir‚ Thodo Ground‚ Solan‚ H.P. Pin 173212 **Dr. Jai Singh Parmar **Associate
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“Sons-of-the-Soil” and Local Insurgencies ABSTRACT One explanation for localized armed conflicts is competition between the original inhabitants of an area and more recent settlers‚ including both migrants from the same country and from abroad. As of yet‚ this explanation has not been thoroughly scrutinized‚ partly due to the lack of disaggregated data on violence needed to properly examine the hypothesis. Hence‚ this paper applies the idea of such “sons-of-the-soil” dynamics to
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Introduction Tribal Health Initiative is a public charitable trust located in the Sittilingi valley in Dharmapuri district‚ Tamil Nadu. It works for the welfare of the local community who are predominantly Malavasi tribals. The Tribal Health Initiative was started in 1993 by Dr. Regi George and Dr. LalithaRegi. It started with a small Out Patient Unit in a thatched hut. Three years later‚ mostly due to the support of friends and a few grants‚ they had built a ten bedded hospital with a rudimentary
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Indian Tribes : Among the 68 million citizens of India who are members of tribal groups‚ the Indian tribal religious concepts‚ terminologies‚ and practices are as varied as the hundreds of tribes‚ but members of these groups have one thing in common: they are under constant pressure from the major organized religions. Some of this pressure is intentional‚ as outside missionaries work among tribal groups to gain converts. Most of the pressure‚ however‚ comes from the process of integration within
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Indian Tribes India is the home to large number of indigenous people‚ who are still untouched by the lifestyle of the modern world. With more than 84.4 million‚ India has the largest population of the tribal people in the world. These tribal people also known as the adivasi’s are the poorest in the country‚ who are still dependent on haunting ‚ agriculture and fishing. Some of the major tribal groups in India include Gonds‚ Santhals‚ Khasis‚ Angamis‚ Bhils‚ Bhutias and Great Andamanese. All these
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