Traditional dress, practices and festivals refashioned – Arunachal Pradesh
Source: Tribal Transitions at SOAS – Research DescriptionAddress: https://www.soas.ac.uk/tribaltransitions/description/Date Visited: 31 July 2022
Revival of traditions
“A great deal of things could be learnt from their culture.” – Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of free India, quoted in The Tribal Culture of India by Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi and Binay Kumar Rai
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