Assimilation / Endangered language / Figures, census and other statistics / Languages and linguistic heritage / Names and communities / Organizations / Press snippets / Southern region – Southern Zonal Council

Endangered languages identified by Peoples’ Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) – Karnataka

Siddi and Hakki Pikki ‘critically endangered’ Of the 50 languages that are spoken in Karnataka, eight are potentially endangered and two critical endangered, according to a survey conducted by the …

Assimilation / Biodiversity / Childhood / Community facilities / Eco tourism / Ecology and environment / Economy and development / Education and literacy / Figures, census and other statistics / Health and nutrition / Homes and utensils / Names and communities / Nature and wildlife / Organizations / Photos / Press snippets / Quotes / Revival of traditions / Rural poverty / Southern region – Southern Zonal Council / Success story / Trees / Websites by tribal communities / Western Ghats – Tribal heritage and ecology / Women

“Irulas are very knowledgeable about medicinal plants”: Interview with Zai Whitaker, Director of the Irula Tribal Women’s Welfare Society – Tamil Nadu

The ITWWS is a women’s community-based development organization established in 1986. It was founded with the aim of protecting natural resources, empowering Irula women and using the Irula tribal knowledge …

Community facilities / Crafts and visual arts / Ecology and environment / Economy and development / Government of India / Health and nutrition / Names and communities / Organizations / Press snippets / Revival of traditions / Southern region – Southern Zonal Council / Women

Benefitting from a tribal community’s symbiotic relationship with nature: The healing system practiced by Irula women – Tamil Nadu

INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK | Mar 29, 2005 | To read the full article, click here >> The Irulas’ Natural Products Corporation is a partnership firm located in the ITWWS campus, which …

Assimilation / Ecology and environment / Economy and development / Literature and bibliographies / Misconceptions / Modernity / Names and communities / Nature and wildlife / Organizations / Press snippets / Rural poverty / Women

Encouraging centuries-old life-skills of Irulas: Eking out a living outside forests – Tamil Nadu

Janaki Lenin’s book [My Husband and Other Animals], a compilation of her popular column in The Hindu MetroPlus, offers insights into her husband Rom Whitaker’s fascination for animals, particularly snakes …

Community facilities / Customs / Eco tourism / Ecology and environment / Economy and development / Ethnobotany and ethnomedicine / Government of India / Health and nutrition / History / Misconceptions / Names and communities / Networking / Organizations / Press snippets / Revival of traditions / Scheduled Tribe (ST) / Social conventions / Southern region – Southern Zonal Council / Success story / Tribal identity / Women

Giving Irula healing practices a place in modern medicine: A new source of livelihood for “one among the six oldest Adivasi tribes” – Puducherry & Tamil Nadu

The term Irula means being capable of finding one’s path in dark forests, according to an Irula myth | Read the full report in the Times of India here >> Born in nature’s …

Anthropology / Economy and development / Education and literacy / Figures, census and other statistics / Government of India / Health and nutrition / History / Literature and bibliographies / Names and communities / Nilgiri Biosphere / Quotes / Rural poverty / Women

“Tribal development so far is mechanical, ineffectual, and vague”: An Anthropological Dialogue on Tribal Development Strategies in India

The concept of development has different connotations in different contexts. In a narrow sense, ‘it means, change, and progress, either whole or, partial’. There are people with difference of opinion …