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India tribal belt. India's tribal belt refers to contiguous areas of settlement of tribal people of India, that is, groups or tribes that remained genetically homogenous as opposed to other population groups that mixed widely within the Indian subcontinent. The tribal population in India, although a small minority, represents an enormous ...
Adivasi. The Adivasi are heterogeneous tribal groups across the Indian subcontinent. [1][2][3][4] The term is a Sanskrit word coined in the 1930s by political activists to give the tribal people an indigenous identity by claiming an indigenous origin. [5] The Constitution of India does not use the word Adivasi, instead referring to Scheduled ...
The following list shows the 33 largest Scheduled Tribes according to the Census in India 2011 (76% ≈ 80 of a total of 104 million members) with their population development (population explosion from +25%), their proportions and their gender distribution (number of female relatives per 1000 male) as well as the populated states/territories ...
The Santal community, like the others of the region, was split between West Bengal in India and East Bengal in Pakistan during Partition. After independence, the Santals were made one of the Scheduled Tribes in India. In East Pakistan, there were some regions in the west where Santals were still in significant numbers.
Sentinelese. The Sentinelese, also known as the Sentineli and the North Sentinel Islanders, are an indigenous people who inhabit North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal in the northeastern Indian Ocean. Designated a particularly vulnerable tribal group and a Scheduled Tribe, they belong to the broader class of Andamanese peoples.
The hill tribes of Northeast India[a] are hill people, [b] mostly classified as Scheduled Tribes (STs), who live in the Northeast India region. This region has the largest proportion of scheduled tribes in the country. Northeast India comprises Assam and part or all of the former princely states of Manipur, Tripura and Sikkim.
Siddi tribal dance performance in Delhi While they have assimilated in many ways to the dominant culture, [ 54 ] they have also kept some ancestral practices especially in music and dance. [ 55 ] Like other ethnic groups separated by geography, there are both differences and similarities in cultural practices among the Siddi.
Bodo–Kachari people. Bodo–Kacharis (also Kacharis or Bodos) [1][2] is a name used by anthropologist and linguists [3] to define a collection of ethnic groups living predominantly in the Northeast Indian states of Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and West Bengal. These peoples are speakers of either Bodo–Garo languages or Assamese. [citation needed]