Audio | Kota music and musical instruments – Tamil Nadu
PAPPU VENUGOPALA RAO The focus was on music history, its religious aspects and some unique technical nuances. […] Kota Drums: The first lecture was by Prof. Richard Wolf of the …
Shivaratri celebrations by the Kota community in the Nilgiri mountains – Tamil Nadu
View a video and two slideshows taken during Shivaratri, the main annual festival celebtrated by the Kota community More videos, slideshows and background information provided by Venkatesh Lakshmanan >> For an in-depth study of …
Irula snake-catchers providing venom for producing antivenom – Tamil Nadu
India has one of the highest rates of death from snakebite in the world. There are four species of snakes (of the nearly 300 different species in India) primarily responsible …
Audio & eBook | Kota music and “signs of indigeneity” in the Nilgiri Hills – Tamil Nadu
Listen to “Konjenetre bommeyetre mānte nōṭē” and other beautiful songs of the Kota community (with detailed explanations) on Kota God Song >> Richard K. Wolf (Harvard University) and Frank Heidemann …
Pulayar music – Tamil Nadu
The hill-tribes have a natural fondness for music and they are known for the preservation of ancient culture. The Pulayar tribe describe their melodies as talams. According to them, their …
Pulayar community – Kerala, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu
The Pulayar, also Pulaya, or Pulayas or Holeya or Cheramar, are one of the main social groups found in Kerala, Karnataka and in historical Tamil Nadu or Tamilakam Traditions Their …
Educational package for children of the Kadar community: Initiating children into formal education easily – Kerala & Tamil Nadu
An educational package for pre-primary children of the Kadar tribe incorporating their own language [has been] distributed in 22 anganwadis [in July 2012]. Dr. Amitha Bachan, the man behind the …
“The Toda Landscape: Explorations in cultural ecology”: Book on rapid changes and transformations | Tamil Nadu
Scholars, historians and anthropologists came together to felicitate Dr. Tarun Chhabra on his definitive work on the Toda tribe The 150 year old Nilgiri library witnessed the launch of a …