“Our vital traditions are being lost. They are bing ‘modernized’.” – A tribal mother’s concerns (interviewed for Survival International) in “Factory Schools: Destroying Indigenous People in the Name of Education” (accessed 28 March 2021)
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Source: “In Arunachal Pradesh, the Adi community is trying to reviving the traditional anyat millet” by Sanskrita Bharadwaj, Scroll.in, 26 December 2023Address: https://scroll.in/article/1060885/in-arunachal-pradesh-the-adi-community-is-trying-to-reviving-the-traditional-anyat-milletDate Visited: 3 March 2025 The Adi are …
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