Search this website
Fact checking
- Fact checking +
- Safe Search: NGOs, Indian Government & universities ++
- Adivasi, Tribals & Denotified tribes – Classifications
- Biological Diversity: What is the Biodiversity Act?
- Endangered languages: Peoples’ Linguistic Survey of India
- Forest Rights Act (FRA)
- Health & nutrition
- Hyderabad biodiversity pledge
- Interactive maps
- Names of tribal communities (Sitemap)
- Tribal identity & terminology: UN Forum on Indigenous Issues
- Worldcat.org – Find Indian authors and publications
Indian writing on tribal issues
- Search select periodicals +
- Magazines & web portals ++
- eBook & eJournal
- Ecology, health & nutrition
- Ethics in journalism: Covering Deprivation (Asian College of Journalism)
- The Johar eJournal: The tribal way of life
- PARI Rural people speak about their lives: photos, film & more
- Press: Interactive map
- Suggest a resource
- UN journalism video: Misinformation in times of coronavirus
- We have to write our own stories
NGOs, Indian Government & universities
- Contact: National helpline Childline & report human trafficking +
- Accountability
- Biological Diversity: MS Swaminathan Foundation & UN Convention
- Books by Indian authors & publishers
- eBook | Demographic Status of Scheduled Tribe Population of India (Census figures 2011): Government of India
- eBook | State wise population of Scheduled Tribes (ST) and their percentage to the total population in the respective states and to the total STs population
- eBook | The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights & International Convention against Torture
- Forest dwellers in early India – myths and ecology
- Gandhian social movement
- Health: Recommendations by the Expert Committee
- India’s 28 States and 8 Union Territories
- Interactive map: Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups & Endangered languages
- Journalism without Fear or Favour, The Committee to Protect Journalists & UN
- Listen to the tribals: Fighting exploitation and stigmatization of women
- Networking
- Resources for the classroom
- Right to Education in India: Proclamations on child rights
- Rights of Scheduled Tribes
- Scheduled Tribe (ST)
- Seasons and festivals
- Success stories
- Survival Int. on tribal education
- Tagore and rural culture
- Tribal communities recognized by the government (Census 2011)
- Tribal Research Institutes
- Unicef & Unesco
- Zonal Cultural Centres across India
Recent posts
Tag Archives: Mudugar
Welfare programmes and schools functioning under Tribal Welfare Department – Tamil Nadu
Scheduled Tribes of Tamilnadu ADI DRAVIDAR AND TRIBAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT POLICY NOTE 2018 – 2019 INTRODUCTION: As per the census of 2011, the population of Tamil Nadu is 7.21 crore [72,1 million] of which Scheduled Castes (known as Adi Dravidar … Continue reading
Posted in Community facilities, Economy and development, Education and literacy, Government of India, Names and communities, Nilgiri, Organizations, Quotes, Scheduled Tribe (ST), Southern region – Southern Zonal Council
Tagged Adiya, Arandan, Eravallan, Irula, Kaani (Kani), Kadar, Kammara, Kanikkar, Kanyan, Kattunayaka, Kochu Velan, Kondakapu, Kondareddi, Koraga, Kota, Kudiya, Kurichia, Kuruman, Kurumba, Maha Malasar, Mala Arayan, Malai Pandaram, Malai Vedan, Malaikuruvan, Malasar, Malayakandi, Malayali, Mannan, Melakudi, Mudugar, Muduvan, Muthuvan, Pallayan, Palliyan, Palliyar, Paniya, Sholaga, Toda, Urali
Comments Off on Welfare programmes and schools functioning under Tribal Welfare Department – Tamil Nadu
Tribal participation in efforts to overcome diseases and malnutrition: Tribal activist and medical doctor Dr. Kamalakshi – Kerala
A doctor couple have dedicated their life to the tribal people of Attappady. Till two decades ago, the majority of tribal people in Attappady were reluctant to approach doctors even in cases of emergency, preferring herbal medicines they inherited through … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Childhood and children, Community facilities, Customs, Ecology and environment, Economy and development, Education and literacy, Figures, census and other statistics, Government of India, Health and nutrition, Media portrayal, Names and communities, Press snippets, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rural poverty, Southern region – Southern Zonal Council, Storytelling, Video resources - external, Women
Tagged Irula, Kurumba, Mudugar
Comments Off on Tribal participation in efforts to overcome diseases and malnutrition: Tribal activist and medical doctor Dr. Kamalakshi – Kerala
Wikipedia – list of tribal communities in Kerala
Tribals in Kerala (Adivasis of Kerala) are the indigenous population found in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Most of the tribal people of Kerala live in the forests and mountains of Western Ghats, bordering Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. […] Tribals in Kerala are living on … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Figures, census and other statistics, Names and communities, Quotes, Southern region – Southern Zonal Council, Western Ghats - tribal heritage & ecology
Tagged Adiya, Alar, Arandan, Cholanaikan, Eravallan, Ernadan, Kadar, Kammara, Kanikkar, Katunaikar, Kochu Velan, Kondakapu, Kondareddi, Koraga, Koragar, Kota, Kudiya, Kurichchan, Kuruman, Kurumba, Maha Malasar, Malai Arayan, Malai Pandaram, Malai Vedan, Malakkuravan, Malappulayan, Malasar, Malayan, Mannan, Marati, Mudugar, Muduvan, Muthan, Muthuvan, Paanan, Paliyan, Paniyar, Ulladan, Uraly
Comments Off on Wikipedia – list of tribal communities in Kerala
Not a lack of knowledge but loss of land behind malnutrition: How forced dependence on distribution system shatters self-sustained communities – Kerala
K. A. SHAJI, The Hindu, PALAKKAD, June 15, 2014 A year after a large number of child deaths were reported from Attappady owing to malnutrition, an official survey held in the past two weeks has found that 572 children below … Continue reading →