Search tips: find information on any particular tribal community
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- Find posts with information about a particular community here (up-to-date sitemap)
- Search tips – using categories and tags to find contents
- Learn more about India’s 28 States and 8 Union Territories: Information provided by the Government of India – From Andhra Pradesh to West Bengal
Find out more by using the “Safe Search” window
- Type “bhil tribe india” or simply “Bhil custom” to learn more about the Bhil community
- Click the hyperlink “← Older posts” for posts related to that community
- For some names like “Mari” it is advisable to include “tribal india” or “tribe india” in your search: type “madia maria tribe india” for the community variously known as Maria or Madia
- Use different combinations like “munda tribe india video” or “khasi india music video”
- For informative video clips and more, explore “Cover Your Country” by PARI: Rural people speak about their lives
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Search tips: in the search field seen below, 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, and 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 a list of websites included in a single search, click here. To search Indian periodicals, magazines, web portals and other sources safely, click here. To find an Indian PhD thesis on a particular tribal community, region and related issues, click here >>
Learn more about water-related issues that affect India’s tribal communities >>
“National development and the development of tribal communities are linked to each other.” – Droupadi Murmu | Speeches by the 15th President of India >>
“Together, we must endeavour to strengthen tribal communities which are the role model in preservation of water, forest and land, and learn from their connection with nature and the surrounding environment for the sake of the entire human race.” – journalist and tribal rights activist Dayamani Barla in The Wire >>
Please note
- Settlements sometimes transcend national or administrative boundaries (e.g. the Santals of India and Bangladesh)
- Where different spellings apply preference is given to the variants found in most sources including government institutions (e.g. Santal for Santhal)
- ‘Tribal’ is a very broad term in the English language and includes all the different indigenous groups of India >>
Regions
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Bastar
- Chotanagpur
- Gadchiroli
- Narmada
- Nilgiri Biosphere
- Wayanad
- Western Ghats – tribal heritage & ecology
Up-to-date information on India’s Zonal Cultural Centers | Government website
- Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Kolkata
Eastern region – Eastern Zonal Council - North Central Zone Cultural Centre, Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh - North East Zone Cultural Centre, Dimapur
Seven Sister States & Sikkim – North Eastern Council - North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala
Northern region – Northern Zonal Council - South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur
Central region – Central Zonal Council - South Zone Cultural Centre, Thanjavur
Southern region – Southern Zonal Council - West Zone Cultural Centre, Udaipur
Western region – Western Zonal Council
Learn more about India’s eight North Eastern states: The “Seven Sister States” & Sikkim
Explore India’s tribal cultural heritage with the help of another interactive map >>