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Watch a video documentary on Santali marriage customs >> The original inhabitants of South Asia are known as Adivasi. Their lifestyle is generally marked by a profound respect for nature. …
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“While benefiting from affirmative action in some cases, Adivasis or indigenous people in India also feel the claustrophobic confines of their identity which has been imposed on them by others, be it the colonial administrator, the colonial anthropologist, the missionary or the neo-liberal, neo-imperialist forces that rule global economy today.” – Santali poet, scholar and translator Ivy Imogene Hansdak in “Is tribal identity relevant in today’s world?”, Inaugural Speech, National Conference “Tribes In Transition-II: Reaffirming Indigenous Identity Through Narrative” (2017)
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Watch a video documentary on Santali marriage customs >> The original inhabitants of South Asia are known as Adivasi. Their lifestyle is generally marked by a profound respect for nature. …
Source: “Perceiving the Forest: Early India Studies” in History (February 2001 17: 1-16)URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/025764300101700101 | Backup (PDF, 1MB) >>Date Visited: 6 November 2021 The Aryans describe their enemies as dark …
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 …
Within the world of food collection […] Hunts such as these, all of them taking place in the months preceding the monsoon and involving only men, made me first realize that …
Manipur tribe turns to music to preserve culture | Read the full report here >> IMPHAL: Aimol, a Scheduled Tribe community in Manipur with a small population, is on the …
Read the full post here | View all posts by vsanthakumar >> The central and state governments in India, and organizations such as Azim Premji Foundation are committed to the …
Source: “Forest guards in conservation focus” by Jayanta Basu (The Telegraph, 15 September 2019)URL: https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/forest-guards-in-conservation-focus/cid/1705225Date visited: 1 November 2020 PUNE: Documentary filmmaker Krishnendu Bose on Monday said that the concept …