“It is almost impossible to characterize all of India’s tribals in a single ethnographic or historic framework.” – Ganesh [GN] Devy in his Introduction to Painted Words: An Anthology of Tribal Literature
Explore India’s tribal cultural heritage with the help of several interactive maps, specially created for visitors to this website:
- An alphabetical journey across India: from Andaman to West Bengal
- Northeastern India: the “Seven Sister States” & Sikkim
- Visit a museum in India: Indigenous art, anthropological & ethnographical collections
- A virtual journey across time and space: from Gondi-Harappan to present & future
- Locations for video documentaries & external media contents
- Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (Govt. data) & Endangered languages (PLSI data)
- Places associated with press reports and blogs about India’s tribal cultural heritage
- A virtual journey across India: from Ladakh to Gujarat
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Regions of India – Tribal cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge
Zonal Councils as defined by the Government of India