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A Good News Weekly
Vol - 2 | Issue - 34 | Aug 06 - 12, 2018 | Price ` 5/-
Colourful Tapestry Of Culture Tribes of India
Tribal communities lead environment-friendly lives, and they have much to teach contemporary societies facing the threat of climate change and global warming
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n India, the tribes were not considered as separate from the rest of Indian society. They were part of the country’s rich human diversity, with their languages and customs. There were some very ancient groups like the people in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal,
the Mundas in Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha, the Naga tribes like Angami in the north-eastern state of Nagaland. Then there are the Bhils in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, the Gonds in Chhattisgarh, the Santhals in Bangla, who have maintained their distinct identity through the recent centuries while adopting the dominant religious beliefs of the Hindu system, though they
have their own gods and goddesses. Anthropologists and historians believe that many of the divinities of the tribes of India have been absorbed into the Hindu pantheon in various parts of the country, and the local gods and goddesses were really preHindu tribal divinities. India’s fivethousand-year-old history is indeed very complex, where many streams mix and form a large river. The general definition of tribes in India, as in many other parts of India, is that they are generally preliterate societies, who are at the stage of hunter-gatherers, and when they practice agriculture it is the slashand-burn variety, where they clear a piece of forest, sow a crop and after
Quick Glance India is home to the largest tribal population in the world
Lifestyle of tribes helped in tracing the pre-agricultural stage
Poetry of the different tribes conveys their literary sensibility