Adivasi is a name collectively used to describe the indigenous people in India. A modern Sanskrit term coined in the 1930s, it ... Each Adivasi tribe has its own set of rules and regulations ...

As G.N. Devy, the editor of Being Adivasi with the late Abhay Xaxa, shares in his introduction: ‘I would like to hope that it is received not just as a publication or academic exercise but ...

Tribal people, accounting for 8.2% of India’s population, are spread all over India’s states and union territories. Even so, they can be broadly classified into three groupings.

MADIKERI: The Adivasi tribes of Nagarahole staged a protest in front of the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, urging the implementation of the Forest Rights Act. Alleging that the department is devising ...

Many indigenous people, known as the adivasi ("original dwellers"), in the Dandakaranya region are blighted by problems typical of so many of India's remote communities: land loss and evictions ...

Until March 31, 1937, the British categorised them as ‘backward classes’. It was under the Government of India Act 1935 that they were first scheduled as tribes, a practice that was retained in ...

INDIA alliance must have social justice agenda and more Dalit-Adivasi leaders. ... The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes comprise around 25% of India’s population.

How India’s caste system limits diversity in science — in six charts. ... (Dalit) or Scheduled Tribes (Adivasi). §‘General’ is the government term for all groups that are not OBC, ...