Government schemes and construct community halls for tribal community – Goa

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The Times of India, Goa,  Oct 13, 2012 PANAJI: Tribal welfare minister Ramesh Tawadkar announced three more schemes for tribal people. Tawadkar announced the “Gagan Bharari Shiksha Yojana” to provide additional financial assistance to scheduled tribe students as the maintenance allowance given under the post-matric scholarship is inadequate to meet expenses on food and travel. […] … Read more

Romanticising ‘indigenous peoples’ in the West just as in urban India

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The impulse to romanticise ‘indigenous peoples’ is still a powerful force in scholarship and public debate, and not only in the West but also in urban India, where ‘tribal’ (adivasi or ‘first-inhabitant’) textiles are fashionable, tribal dances grace government parades, and publishing on tribal cultures is big business. Most large-format photographic books of tribal life in India (Baldizonne 1999), for example, only perpetuate images of tribal people as guardians of static culture by conflating historical and contemporary contexts. Read more >>

Source: Tribal Transitions at SOAS – Research Description
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Mangroves saving Irula tribe and fishing hamlets near Pichavaram from the tsunami – Tamil Nadu

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The mangroves in the Pichavaram wetland stood as a solid buffer, saving the Irula tribe and about a dozen fishing hamlets from the tsunami. Source: Towards sustainable rehabilitationVolume 22 – Issue 04, Feb. 12 – 25, 2005Frontline: India’s National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDUDate Visited: Thu Jul 07 2011 13:13:18 GMT+0200 (CEST)

Night’s End – play about the tiger, forests, and human survival – Tamil Nadu

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The Hindu, Chennai, December 4, 2012  A play about the tiger, forests, and human survival, Night’s End, a JustUs Repertory production is presented by SS International and supported by Kalakshetra. Written and directed by Gowri Ramnarayan, the play features Sheejith Krishna and Akhila Ramnarayan. It will be staged at Rukmini Arangam, Kalakshetra, Thiruvanmiyur on December 8 … Read more