Film | Tortoise under the Earth (Dharti Latar Re Horo)  – A docu-fiction from Jharkhand

Dharti Latar Re Horo by Shishir Jha (duration 1h 35m) is a story of a tribal couple coping with the loss of their daughter in the Uranium Mining area in the state of Jharkhand, India. Shishir Jha is known for Dharti Latar Re Horo (2022), Shuruaat Ka Interval (2014) and August (2014).Source: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6563133/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Reviews Tortoise … Read more

Learn more about tribal communities in Jharkhand

eBook | Search a reservoir of Indian theses: Shodhganga, “a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses – Open access

e.g. search for “Shodhganga scheduled tribe”, “Shodhganga tribal language”, “Shodhganga Adivasi”, “Shodhganga Andaman”, “Shodhganga Santal”, “Shodhganga tribal education”, “Shodhganga forest rights”, “Shodhganga Nilgiri tribe”, “Shodhganga vulnerable tribal group” in the above search field: Example Searching for “Adivasi Shodhganga” in the above search window yields the following result (among others): Title: Adivasi women in Eastern India … Read more

Teaching Santal children by Boro Baski

Though India is hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, our small cluster of two Adivasi villages in West Bengal has not suffered infections yet. We do feel the economic impacts of course. […] Farm work has continued quietly. To many Santals, one lesson of the pandemic has been that agriculture provides the safest livelihoods. It … Read more

Ethnomedicine: Discoveries through follow-up research of folk or ethnomedical amounting to 74 per currently in use worldwide – Jharkhand & Kerala

How Adivasis of one Jharkhand village are trying to preserve ethnomedicine With ‘civilisation’ and ‘modernity’ having made inroads into India’s tribal areas, its heritage of traditional tribal systems of medicine is increasingly under threat […] “‘Ethnomedicine’, as defined by George Foster and Barbara Anderson in their 1978 essay Medical Anthropology, is the totality of health, … Read more