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    • Speech communities deserve dignity and respect – UNESCO lecture
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      • Children’s educational video channel – Gudalur
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      • Ekalavya the archer prodigy: The unresolved question of submission to bondage in “moral stories for children”
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      • Success stories
      • Video | Tribal education must be rooted in the people’s own land, language and culture
    • A View of Higher Education in India by Prof. Ganesh Devy
    • Language in education and linguistic heritage
    • Multi-lingual education
    • Resources for the classroom: Learning from and about India’s tribal communities, their culture and knowledge systems
    • Tribal Children’s Right to Education in India: Proclamations on child rights
    • We have to write our own stories
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    • + Regions of India: Tribal culture and related issues
      • Andaman and Nicobar Islands
      • Bastar
      • Central region – Central Zonal Council
      • Eastern region – Eastern Zonal Council
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      • Narmada
      • Northern region – Northern Zonal Council
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      • Southern region – Southern Zonal Council
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      • Western region –  Western Zonal Council
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    • Women in India: A reality check
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    • 1. An alphabetical journey across India: from Andaman to West Bengal
    • 2. Northeastern India: the “Seven Sister States” & Sikkim
    • 3. Visit a museum in India: Indigenous art, anthropological & ethnographical collections
    • 4. A virtual journey across time and space: from Gondi-Harappan to present & future
    • 5. Locations for video documentaries & external media contents
    • 6. Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (Govt. data) & Endangered languages (PLSI data)
    • 7. Places associated with press reports and blogs about India’s tribal cultural heritage
    • 8. A virtual journey across India: from Ladakh to Gujarat
    • Link | Government map: States & Union Territories of India
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    • + Audio – resources on the foundation website
      • Audio resources – external
      • Audio | Santali Traditional and Fusion Songs: Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust – West Bengal
    • + ePub & free downloads
      • Asian Ethnology: Special issue on tribal culture in India
      • eBook | Demographic Status of Scheduled Tribe Population of India (Census figures 2011): Government of India
      • eBook | Free catalogue: Museum of Santal Culture (Bishnubati) – West Bengal
      • Denotified Tribes, Nomadic & Semi-Nomadic Tribes: Recommendations
      • eBook | Adivasi Stories from Gujarat – Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (Vadodara) – Gujarat
      • eBook | The Food Book of four communities in the Nilgiri mountains: Gudalur Valley – Tamil Nadu
      • eBook | “Santals Celebrate the Seasons”: Creativity fostered by Ashadullapur Gramin Silpa & Sastha Bidhan Kendra – West Bengal
      • eBook | The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights & International Convention against Torture
      • eJournal | Irish Journal of Anthropology: Special issue on Adivasi identity
      • Folio (The Hindu): Special issue on Adivasi culture
      • Folklore and Folkloristics: Special issue on Capacity Building for Tribal students in Tripura
      • Health: Recommendations by the Expert Committee
      • Johar multidisciplinary eJournal
      • PARI Rural people speak about their lives: photos, narratives, film & audio
      • Unicef comic books: Free resources
    • + Photos and slideshows – resources on the foundation website
      • Halakki people (Uttara Kannada) – Karnataka
      • Kuruma community of Wayanad: A living heritage – Kerala
      • Madia community – introduction
      • Modern education in Kakrana (Narmada) – Madhya Pradesh
      • Museum of Santal Culture (Bishnubati) – West Bengal
      • Photoworkshop “Through Children’s Eyes” – Tamil Nadu
      • Pottery workshop (Ashadullapur) – West Bengal
      • Views of Santal villages near Santiniketan: Visiting the Museum of Santal Culture – West Bengal
      • Santal Musical Traditions – National Museum
      • Through Children’s Eyes (Nilgiris) – Tamil Nadu
      • + Video – external resources
        • Video “Biodiversity” | Inherited knowledge and its value for modern healthcare & using resources in a sustainable manner – M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
        • Video | Documentary made and edited by Adivasi students in Gudalur – Tamil Nadu
        • Video | Historian Romila Thapar: “The past is very delicate”
        • TEDxGurugram | Kalyan Akkipeddi on ProtoVillages to eliminate poverty
        • Video | Mallika Sarabhai on storytelling for a cause
        • Video | Scientist MS Swaminathan on learning from Adivasi customs
        • Video | UN Human Rights Council’s Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
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    • + Video – resources on the foundation website
      • Video | Khasi musical heritage of Meghalaya
      • Video | Kota dance
      • Video | Madia customs
      • Video | Through the Eye of the Ancestors
      • Video | World of Warli by Tamarind Tree – Maharashtra
      • Video | South Gujarat tribal music documentation (2): Ghangali played for Kansari katha (story telling)
      • Video | Suggi Habba celebration by the Halakki people – Karnataka
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Video | Khasi music revival – the stories of two young duitara players

Posted on 28/10/2020 by website administrator
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Kong Batthimai, a vegetable vendor and singer celebrates music as a source of joy; for her and her community, it is also a means of attaining knowledge and enlightenment …

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