India’s tribal cultural heritage – Madhya Pradesh

“Meera, Suneeta, and Shyamkali work for Khabar Lahariya, a rural newspaper employing Dalit, Muslim, and tribal women who report on local issues in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh with a sharp feminist gaze. It was formed in 2002″ – Read the full report by Tanul Thakur in The Wire >>

Nehru was fascinated by the spontaneity of tribal culture and their capacity of joy and heroism in spite of their appalling poverty, destitution, and ignorance. […] In Nehru’s view, the process of modernization must not be taken as forcing a sudden break with the tribals past but help them build upon it and grow by a natural process of evolution.

Dr. Chittaranjan Mishra in “Tribal Philosophy and Pandit Nehru” (Odisha Review, November 2017) | Learn more >>
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