Editing Content :: Admin Scraper

Chapter

Content type

Position

Value

YoujustreadabouthowDaduwasforcedtoleavehisvillage Explain at least three different inOdisha.Dadu’sstoryissimilartothelivesofmillionsof reasons why groups may be Adivasis in India. You will read more about the marginalised. marginalisationofthiscommunityinthischapter. Why was Dadu forced to leave his village in Odisha? Who are Adivasis? Adivasis – the term literally means ‘original inhabitants’ Tribals are also referred to as – are communities who lived, and often continue to live, Adivasis. in close association with forests. Around 8 per cent of India’s population is Adivasi and many of India’s most important mining and industrial centres are located in Adivasiareas–Jamshedpur,Rourkela,BokaroandBhilai among others. Adivasis are not a homogeneous You may have heard the term population:thereareover500differentAdivasigroupsin Scheduled Tribes. Scheduled Tribes is the term used for India. Adivasis are particularly numerous in states like Adivasis used by the Indian Chhattisgarh,Jharkhand,MadhyaPradesh,Odisha,Gujarat, Maharashtra,Rajasthan,AndhraPradesh,WestBengalandin government in various official the north-eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, documents. There is an official list of tribes. Scheduled Tribes Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and are often grouped together with Tripura. A state like Odisha is home to more than 60 Scheduled Castes in the category different tribal groups. Adivasi societies are also most Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. distinctive because there is often very little hierarchy among them. This makes them radically different from communities organised around principles of jati-varna (caste) or those that were ruled by kings. In your own city or village, who Adivasispractisearangeofbeliefsystemsthataredifferent would you think are the from other religions. These often involve the worship of marginalised groups? Discuss. ancestors,villageandnaturespirits,thelastassociatedwith and residing in various sites in the landscape – ‘mountain- Can you name some Adivasi communities that live in your spirits’,‘river-spirits’,‘animal-spirits’,etc.Thevillagespirits state? are often worshipped at specific sacred groves within the village boundary while the ancestral ones are usually What languages do they speak? worshipped at home. Additionally, Adivasis have always been influenced by different surrounding religions like Do they live close to the Shakta, Buddhist, Vaishnav, Bhakti and Christianity. forest? Simultaneously, Adivasi religions themselves have Do they migrate to other influenceddominantreligionsoftheempiresaroundthem, regions looking for work? 65 Chapter 5: Understanding Marginalisation 2024-25