Tribal Cultural Heritage in India
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Chandanpura is a small village in the Bijawar block of Madhya Pradesh. It falls under the rain scarce drought prone area of Bundelkhand. […] The village Chadanpura is a tribal …
Baha Parab (Celebrating Man’s Communion with Nature)by Dr. Boro Baski, Bishnubati Baha Parab 28th Year of Adibasi Baha Parab (Santal Flower Festival), organized by Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust, successfully celebrated with various …
To celebrate the 2012 Olympics, Survival reveals some of the astonishing skills of the world’s tribal peoples, from the Awá archers of the Amazon to the Bajau divers of Borneo …
This year the theme of the celebration was “Santal Traditional Food”. Kolkata Centre for Creativity has collaborated with the Ghosaldanga Adibasi Seva Sangha. Dr. Boro Baski delivered a lecture on …
For two years, cultural anthropologist Erik de Maaker and documentary filmmaker Nandini Bedi lived among the Garo in the rural West Garo Hills, an area where Christians were a minority. …
Exhibition photo courtesy Dr. Ruchira Ghose and Project Management Unit, National Museum © 2015 | Video & virtual exhibition >> Cadence and Counterpoint: Documenting Santal Musical Traditions On view at the National Museum …
Photos © Tribal Cultural Heritage in India Foundation A museum can be a motivation for the community to move forward towards modernity without abandoning one’s Santal mentality [and] items like musical …
Photos courtesy Sunder Manoj Hembrom © 2015; report courtesy Dr. Ivy Hansdak Some Glimpses of the ‘Tribes in Transition’ Conference, Santiniketan 12-13 March 2014 The ‘Tribes in Transition’ Conference has helped in enriching academic knowledge of …
Source: Research team (Sayantani Satpathi, Shambhavi Singh & Subhodeep Basu) in “Revisiting the Forest Rights Act: Status of Implementation with respect to Land Tenures and Collection of Minor Forest Produce), …
India has about 5,000 rock art sites, next only to Australia and South Africa, where prehistoric people have recorded life as they saw it, in paintings, engravings and carvings. Finding …