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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 ...
India. Founder (s) Ruby Hembrom. Products. Books. URL. adivaani .org. Adivaani (stylised as adivaani, in lower case) is a platform that aims to support indigenous expression and assertion, based in Kolkata, India. It is a publishing, archiving and chronicling outfit of and by indigenous people of India 's Adivasi Tribes.
The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2015; ISBN 9789385288647) is a collection of short stories.The second book by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, it was nominated for The Hindu Literary Prize in 2016 [1] and included by Frontline (magazine) in August 2022 in a list of 25 books “that light up the path to understanding post-Independence Indian literature.” [2] As of ...
Gegong Apang, former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. Hemananda Biswal, former Chief Minister of Odisha. Amarsinh Chaudhary, former Chief Minister of Gujarat. K. L. Chishi, former Chief Minister of Nagaland. Dasarath Deb, former Chief Minister of Tripura.
Dhodia are an Adivasi people who have been placed in the Indian communities recognition, under Schedule Tribes. [citation needed] The majority of the Dhodia tribes are located in the southern part of Gujarat (Navsari, Surat and Valsad districts), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Rajasthan.
The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict [30] between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals (a group of communists supportive of Maoist political sentiment and ideology) and the Indian government. The influence zone of the Naxalites is called the red corridor, which has been steadily declining in terms of geographical ...
Dev Mogra. Coordinates: 21°36′24″N 73°45′15″E. Dev Mogra (also Devmogra or Yaah Devmogi) is a figure in Adivasi mythology, a goddess for the Satpuda mountain people. It is mainly Totem (kuldevi) to a tribals living for centuries in the surrounding areas specially in Gujarat and Maharashtra. There is a temple to this goddess on a ...
The Nepalese caste system is the traditional system of social stratification of Nepal. The Nepalese caste system broadly borrows the classical Hindu Chaturvarnashram model, consisting of four broad social classes or varna: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Sudra. The caste system defines social classes by a number of hierarchical endogamous groups ...