Tribal

Today often the peripheral groups, more than million Indians belong to tribal communities distinct from the great mass of Hindu caste society. Inhabiting the undisturbed hills and densely wooded regions in the states of Arunanchal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and the north eastern region primarily, for thousands of years, these ‘Aadivasis’, as they are known in India, have origins, which precede the Vedic Aryans and the Dravidians of the south.

The vast majority of tribal people has been dispossessed of their ancestral land and has been turned into destitute labourers, struggling desperately to keep their traditions alive.