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The Munda people have elaborate rituals to celebrate birth, death, engagement and marriage. Munda practice clan exogamy and tribal endogamy. Monogamy is the norm. Bride price is prevalent. Marriage ceremony starts with Sagai and ends with Bidai. Munda enjoy this occasion with feast, drinks and dance. [37]
Munda-speaking people have high amount of East Asian paternal lineages O1b1 (~75%) and D1a1 (~6%), which is absent from other Indian groups. They found that the modern Munda-speaking people have about 29% East/Southeast Asian , 15.5% West Asian and 55.5% South Asian ancestry on average.
The Munda are an ethnic tribal (Adivasi) group of people of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. Munda people are categorised as Scheduled Tribe by Constitution of India which are found in Jharkhand , Chhattisgarh & Orrisa .
Birsa Munda pronunciation ⓘ (15 November 1875 – 9 June 1900) [4] was an Indian tribal independence activist, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) in the late 19th century, during the British Raj, thereby making him an important figure in the history of the Indian ...
The Munda languages are a group of closely related languages spoken by about nine million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Historically, they have been called the Kolarian languages. [ 4 ]
The Santal (or Santhal) are an Austroasiatic-speaking Munda ethnic group of the Indian subcontinent. [7] Santals are the largest tribe in the Jharkhand and West Bengal in terms of population and are also found in the states of Odisha, Bihar, Assam and Tripura.
The Mundang people are an ethnic group in West Africa who live in parts of Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria. [1] They speak the Mundang language, a subset of Mbum languages. [2] Historically, the Mundang were an agricultural people; in the beginning of the 20th century they grew and harvested peas, beans, potatoes, nuts and durra. [3]
The people of this area spoke the proto-Munda language. Several terms in the Indo-Aryan languages that signify the use of cotton, navigation, digging, stick, etc. have been traced to the Munda languages by linguists. There are many Munda pockets in Chota Nagpur Plateau, in which the remnants of Munda culture are strong. It is held that changes ...