Tribal Cultural Heritage in India
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“Unless we affirm our culture and right and language, we won’t live. Our colour is good, our language is good, our art is good, our way of living is good. …
The abominable plight of migrant workers in recent weeks has invaded television screens and stirred the nation’s conscience. Alas, this is just the tip of the wave of hardships that …
Source: “Cultures in transformation”, Review by Pramod K. Nayar, The Hindu, 3 April 2011URL: https://www.thehindu.com/books/Cultures-in-transformation/article14669586.eceDate visited: 9 May 2020 A winner of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Narayan died on August …
ECO-SPIRITUALITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE WITH REFERENCE TO THE KAANI TRIBE OF KANYAKUMARI FORESTS Davidson Sargunam (Nagercoil) & S Suja (Associate Professor, Women’s Christian College, College Road, Chennai) ABSTRACT The Kaani …
At a time when most art forms of the Scheduled Tribes in the country have faded into oblivion, the Kerala Institute for Research, Training and Development Studies of Scheduled Castes and …
[N]ew pedagogic practices require to be evolved in order to execute various developmental programmes. In doing so, good practices that exist in the society may turn out to be very …
The indigenous Kaani dialect needs documentation The Kaani language spoken by the Kaani indigenous people of Kanyakumari in the Western Ghats is fast vanishing, according to a survey conducted by …
DIALECT AREA(S) OF TONDAI MANDALAM Gnanasundaram, V. The Iravallan tribe who live in the Anaimalai mountainous region, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu and adjacent Palakad district, Kerala speak generally 1) an indigenous tribal …
Kerala’s Out-Of-The-Box Solution for Tribal Literacy May Be Just What It Needs! Instead of state-commissioned teachers, the new literacy drive will train the ‘preraks’ from these regions, who can take …
By Davidson Sargunam Indigenous peoples are ethnic groups native to a land or region. Usually they have a close relation to the land and live in consonance with nature. They believe that land and people are inseparable and interdependent. …