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Category Archives: Languages and linguistic heritage
Training and employment opportunities for India’s tribal youth: A round-up of recent initiatives and press reports – Kerala, Rajasthan & Telangana
At a time when most art forms of the Scheduled Tribes in the country have faded into oblivion, the Kerala Institute for Research, Training and Development Studies of Scheduled Castes and Tribes (KIRTADS) in Kozhikode is on a mission to revive and … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood and children, Community facilities, Crafts and visual arts, Cultural heritage, Dress and ornaments, Ecology and environment, Economy and development, Education and literacy, Fashion and design, Gandhian social movement, Government of India, Languages and linguistic heritage, Modernity, Music and dance, Names and communities, Nature and wildlife, Networking, Organizations, Performing arts, Press snippets, Revival of traditions, Southern region, Trees, Wayanad, Western region, Women
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ePub | Toda cultural history (Nilgiri) – Tamil Nadu
Until now, historians and anthropologists believed that Todas, a tribal group in the higher altitudes of the Nilgiris, reached there about 2,000 years ago. A new study by Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru researchers shows the community was already settled … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Colonial policies, Crafts and visual arts, Customs, ePub, Figures, census and other statistics, History, Homes and utensils, Languages and linguistic heritage, Literature and bibliographies, Misconceptions, Museum collections - India, Names and communities, Nilgiri, Particularly vulnerable tribal group, Quotes, Tribal identity, Western Ghats - tribal heritage & ecology, Worship and rituals
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Ganesh N. Devy – biographical notes
Ganesh N. Devy, formerly professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and a renowned literary critic and activist, is founder and director of the Tribal Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat, and director of the Sahitya Akademi’s Project on … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, De- and re-tribalisation, Education and literacy, History, Languages and linguistic heritage, Networking, Organizations, Quotes, Resources
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Learn more about tribal communities on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The ancient tribal communities that lived here in the Andaman Islands […] have lived and flourished here for at least 40,000 years., but the end could well be round the corner. […] It definitely began with the British and their … Continue reading →