Adivasi Adivimb: “Celebrating the rich cultural heritage of tribal art forms: Adivasi, Arunachala Pradesh, Assam Adivimb festival (December) organized by the National School of Drama” – Odisha, Arunachala Pradesh, Assam & Tripura
The objective of the scheme is to make special efforts to encourage folk and tribal arts and to frame special programmes for the preservation and strengthening of the vanishing art forms. Through this scheme, the root of the Indian culture is explored and the artistes from the rural belt are provided with a stage to showcase their talent. Every folk and tribal arts festival is followed by seminars, discussing the art forms and the numerous ways to preserve the vulnerable heritage. In view of the objectives, a series of Festival, Seminar and Exhibition on tribal and folk arts namely, ADI VIMB were organised during the financial year 2014-15 in Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Island, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura and West Bengal: Adi Vimb, Assam Adi Vimb, Andaman & Nicobar Island Adi Vimb, Bihar Adi Vimb, Jharkhand Adi Vimb, Manipur Adi Vimb, Odissa – National festival of folk and tribal arts Adi Vimb, Sikkim Adi Vimb, Tripura Adi Vimb, West Bengal State wise festivals, seminar and exhibition on Folk and Tribal Arts namely, Adi Vimb, will be organised in the year 2015 – 16.
The National School of Drama, New Delhi, organized Adivasi Adivimb, a three-day festival of tribal dance, music and theatre (December 27-29) at Dwaronda village, Santiniketan. The programme – conceived by eminent theatre personality, Ratan Thiyam […]
The festival, in its fourth year, is an initiative taken by Thiyam to contribute to the growth of tribal art and culture across India. It provides the artists assembled from different corners of the country with an opportunity to interact and exchange ideas amongst themselves.
The festival featured tribal art from states like Assam, Odisha, Manipur, Bihar, Jharkhand, Meghalaya and Madhya Pradesh. Apart from this, Santhali groups from Birbhum also participated with great enthusiasm. The Chhau dance of Jharkhand was grand, while the Ghumura of Odisha was rhythmic and spontaneous. The Adi-Solung dancers from Arunachal Pradesh, with their stunning costumes and jewellery, put up a lively performance. Several kinds of Mishing Bihu and Gumrag of Assam were also put on. The distinctive stylistic approach of the Hozagiri dancers of Tripura was notable. […]
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Their presence in India pre-dates the Dravidians, the Aryans and everyone else. Yet they have no political power and most of them live below the poverty line. […]
Tribal people, accounting for 8.2% of India’s population, are spread all over India’s states and union territories. Even so, they can be broadly classified into three groupings. The first consists of populations who predate the Indo-Aryan migrations, and are termed by many anthropologists as the Austro-Asiatic-speaking Australoid people. The Central Indian adivasis belong to this grouping. The other two groupings are the Caucasoid and Sino-Tibetan or Mongoloid tribal people of the Himalayan and North Eastern regions who migrated in later periods.
Article 366 (25) of the Constitution defines scheduled tribes as “such tribes or tribal communities or part of or groups within such tribes or tribal communities as are deemed under Article 342 to the Scheduled Tribes for the purposes of this Constitution”. The criteria for classification being geographical isolation, backwardness and having distinctive culture, language, religion and “shyness of contact”.
Scheduled tribes are found in the greatest numbers in Madhya Pradesh (12.23 million, or 20.3% of the state’s population), Maharashtra (8.58 million or 8.9%), Odisha (8.15 million or 22.1%), Jharkhand (7.1 million or 26.35%), Chhattisgarh (6.16 million or 31.8%), Andhra Pradesh including Telangana (5.02 million or 6.6%), and West Bengal (4.4 million or 5.5%).
By proportion, however, the populations of states in the North East have the greatest concentrations of scheduled tribes. Thirty one per cent of the population of Tripura, 34% of Manipur, 64% of Arunachal Pradesh, 86% of Meghalaya, 88% of Nagaland, and 95% of Mizoram are scheduled tribes. Other heavy concentrations are in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Lakshadweep (94%).
Still, if a headcount is done, the overwhelming numbers are in Central India. […]
A popular Gond song goes:
“And the Gods were greatly troubled/ in their heavenly courts and councils/ Sat no Gods of Gonds among them. / Gods of other nations sat there/ Eighteen threshing-floors of Brahmins/ Sixteen scores of Telinganas/ But no Gods of Gonds appeared there/ From the glens of Seven Mountains/ From the twelve hills of the valleys.”
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The Northeast presents a complex picture, where stunning natural beauty combines with ethnic violence and insurgent movements. From Assam to Tripura, the region of the Seven Sisters has become a hot topic for strategists and social activists, who have debated on how to bring about normality and connect the region, emotionally and physically, with the rest of India. […]
Tracing the roots of unrest, Kumar points out that Tripura’s tribal population, which stood at 52.89 per cent in 1901, came down to 31.8 per cent in 2011 with the influx of refugees during Partition and again after the liberation of East Pakistan/ Bangladesh. As a result, many tribal people lost their land and were reduced to working as landless labourers. […]
However, charting out the path ahead, Kumar says that despite various positive developments, much remains to be done to uplift the economic status of the tribal people and improve their access to quality education, health, sanitation, drinking water and physical infrastructure. In this respect, he also points out that the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous Development Council is an extremely important institution geared towards fulfilling the aspirations of self-administration by tribal people. He also cites the highly visible role of women in the fight against insurgency. […]
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Adivasi Adivimb: “Celebrating the rich cultural heritage of tribal art forms: Adivasi, Arunachala Pradesh, Assam Adivimb festival (December) organized by the National School of Drama” – Odisha, Arunachala Pradesh, Assam & Tripura
Source (accessed 10 July 2019): https://ezccindia.org/promotion-and-preservation-of-tribal-and-folk-arts.html
Simple and spontaneous | Read the full report by Sharmila Basu Thakur in The Telegraph, January 14 , 2017 >>
Source: Adivasis: India’s original inhabitants have suffered the most at its hands
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