Tribal Cultural Heritage in India
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“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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Wayanad is quite rich in species that are important for food security, which, over the years, have fallen into disuse due to a multitude of reasons. Wayanad is also well-known …
Formed as an NGO, with an aim to preserve traditional culture and folkore along the banks of the Bharathapuzha in Kerala. Today, Vayali is one of the foremost exponents of …
Places like Kerala where there were numerous sacred groves and related culture, are ecologically disturbed now due to ill conceived developments chartered out by those who did not have any …
An Indigenous ecologist on why we need to stop and listen to save the planet Earth day is April 22. And Earth is not in great shape to celebrate the …
Direct income from forests as an incentive for conservation By Prof. V Santhakumar (Azim Premji University) February 23, 2024 Read the full post here | View all posts by vsanthakumar >> I was visiting Dayak …
Garima Mishra, Indian Express New Delhi, Sat Apr 27 2013 | Read the full article >> “Why don’t we have an Adivasi voice?”, “Why don’t we have a ‘for and by’ Adivasi …
Introduction: Some considerations on dance in tribal India (Excerpts pp. 126-127) The symbolic and ritual use of dance in the Indian Subcontinent is so diverse and widespread that we cannot …