Adivasi / Adibasi

“Adivasi [Adibasi] – which is derived from Sanskrit – is applied to the dark-skinned or Austro-Asiatic indigenous groups of India (usually those from Eastern India). It is a commonly-used term in Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha. It is also used by the local Mongoloid tribes of North Eastern India for the migrant workers who were brought in as indentured labourers to work in tea plantations during the colonial period. ‘Tribal’ is a very broad term in the English language, as we all know, and includes all the different indigenous groups of India.” – Santali poet, scholar and translator Ivy Imogene Hansdak (email dated 27 March 2020)
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Tribal culture a living example of the Gandhian concept of trusteeship – Human Ecology by Lachman Khubchandani

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Source: Lachman Khubchandani in Indigenous Peoples: Responding to Human Ecology (pp. 14-15) | Free eBook download | Backup >> Indigenous Peoples: Responding to Human EcologyAuthor : Lachman KhubchandaniPublisher : Bhasha Centre and CIIL, 2009Pages : 130 Indigenous Peoples reflects on the current development crises in a framework of human ecology and discusses how Adivasis have responded. … Read more

Role of sacred groves in adivasi society: Adivasi Munnetra Sangam Gudalur – Tamil Nadu

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Role of Sacred Groves and their current status in adivasi societyConservation of natural resources has been an integral part of diverse cultures in different ways. Indigenous communities all over the world lived in harmony with the nature and conserved its valuable biodiversity. There were many traditional conservation practices of adivasis in many parts of the … Read more

eLearning | World Press Freedom Day (3 May) & Journalism without Fear or Favour – United Nations

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3 May acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is also a day of reflection among media professionals about issues of press freedom and professional ethics. Just as importantly, World Press Freedom Day is a day of support for media which are targets for the … Read more

The Museum of Voice (Vaacha) and Adivasi Academy: “A laboratory for contemporary ethnic, anthropological and artistic studies carried out from the perspective of Adivasis” – Gujarat

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Vaacha – The Museum of Voice The Adivasi Academy has been built brick by brick with the support of the tribal community and well wishers of Bhasha. It took nearly four years of continuous construction work for the Museum and Library, the first major buildings of the Academy to be completed, so intricate is the … Read more

Video, audio, photo content & stories | “Cover Your Country” by PARI: Rural people speak about their lives

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Nayak, 75 years old, is from the Lambadi community, and his animals – like those of many cattle breeders here – are Thurupu cattle. The Lambadi (a Scheduled Tribe), the Yadava (Golla) (an OBC) and Chenchu (a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group) are traditional breeders of the Thurupu. The animals have short, sharp horns and hard, strong … Read more