“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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The Jennu Habba – Honey Festival and exhibition drew about 400 visitors. The Vidyodaya schoolchildren enjoyed intensive sessions with the elders of Kattunayakan tribe: It is the honey season and bee hives in the forest are bursting with sweetness. Over generations our people, the Kattunayakans have mastered the skills required to take honey from the … Read more
The National Consortium of Tribal Arts and Culture created by Bhasha is the single largest digital resource for adivasi art expression in India. AddressNational Consortium of Tribal Arts and CultureC/o Bhasha Research and Publication Center62 Shreenathdham DuplexBehind Dinesh Mills AkotaVadodara 390 007Ph: 0265 2331968Email:nctac@bhasharesearch.org.inwww.bhashaarchival.org
Video Volunteers – YouTube channel The tribal girl Almelu was the first girl to complete her higher secondary in her Irula tribal community in the village of Gunavakam. […] Almelu cannot wait to finish her course and she knows exactly what she is going to do once she turns a certified teacher. She sees herself returning … Read more
The Telegraph, Calcutta, Thursday , August 11 , 2011 Hindi stalwarts praise tribal poet M. GANGULY Ranchi, Aug. 10: A young tribal voice has won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi. Anuj Lugun (25), a Munda youth from Pahantoli in Jaldega of Simdega district, currently pursuing research in … Read more
Issue 9.1 of Volume 10 of ‘Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Wiriting’ edited by Shirley Chew http://www.movingworlds.net This issue draws from one segment of the paper presented at the international conference. Chotro (meaning ‘coming together’ in the language of the Bhils of central India), which exmained the position of indigenous peoples of the ‘post’ … Read more