India’s tribal communities portrayed by leading periodicals and internet portals – Press roundup

For an up-to-date press roundup, type “Adivasi welfare”, “tribe citizen journalism”, “tribal youth technology”, “tribal women”, “Warli tribal art”, “Nigiris tribe heritage”, “rural education Chhattisgarh”, “tribe grassroots journalism”, “vulnerable tribal community”, “Santal education”, “Andaman Nicobar tribal tourism” or similar search terms into the search window seen below:

Reports in the Indian press | List of periodicals included in this search >>

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Combine the name of any particular state, language or region with that of any tribal (Adivasi) community.

Add keywords of special interest (health, nutrition endangered language, illegal mining, sacred grove); learn about the rights of Scheduled Tribes such as the “Forest Rights Act” (FRA); and the United Nations “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, “women’s rights”, or “children’s right to education”.

Specify any other issue or news item you want to learn more about (biodiversity, bonded labour and human trafficking, climate change, ecology, economic development, ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, global warming, Himalayan tribe, hunter-gatherers in a particular region or state, prevention of rural poverty, water access).

For official figures include “scheduled tribe ST” along with a union state or region: e.g. “Chhattisgarh ST community”, “Scheduled tribe Tamil Nadu census”, “ST Kerala census”, “Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group Jharkhand”, “PVTG Rajasthan”, “Adivasi ST Kerala”, “Adibasi ST West Bengal” etc.

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Accountability | Constitution and Supreme Court | Democracy

Adivasi (Adibasi) | Scheduled Tribes (ST) | Classifications in different states | Tribal Research Institutes

Adverse inclusion | Casteism | Imprisonment | Social conventions

Ambedkar | He who does not lead his life under the direction of others … is a free man

Anthropology | Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI)

Biodiversity | Hyderabad biodiversity pledge

Childhood | Childrens rights: UNICEF India | Safe search

Climate change | United Nations on climate change

Colonial policiesDenotified Tribe vs. “criminal tribe

eBooks, eJournals & reports

eBook | Background guide for education

eBook | Demographic Status of Scheduled Tribe Population of India (Census figures 2011)

Education and literacy

Ekalavya and Drona shape collective expectations from a teacher and a student

eLearning | “National development and the development of tribal communities are linked to each other”: Droupadi Murmu – 15th President of India

Fact checking | Figures, census and other statistics

Gandhian social movement

Health and nutrition | Recommendations by the Expert Committee

History | Misconceptions

How many ‘Scheduled Tribes’ are there in India? | Latest list (ST): tribal.nic.in (Govt. of India)

Human Rights Commission (posts) | www.nhrc.nic.in (Government of India)

Jaipal Singh Munda

Learn more about India’s 28 States and 8 Union Territories: Information provided by the Government of India

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes

News update in Indian periodicals: Tribal Affairs

Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes | SEED – Government scheme

Particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG)

Regions of India

Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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