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	Tribal Religions of India
		Reincarnation is believed by many Naga tribes, and the dead are buried in the direction from which their ancestors have come.
		Many tribes in India show considerable syncretism with Hinduism, such as the Kadugollas of Karnataka, who worship gods such as Junjappa, Yattappa, Patappa, and Cittappa, but in reality are more devoted to Siva, who dominates their festivals and religious observances.
		Among the tribes of eastern and central India, body tatooing and painting is important.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/india/tribal.html (1699 words)

	India Tribes
		India's 1931 census enumerated 22 million tribal people, in 1941 only 10 million were counted, but by 1961 some 30 million and in 1991 nearly 68 million tribal members were included.
		Tribes fared best where there was little to induce nontribals to settle; cash crops and commercial highways frequently signaled the dismemberment of the tribes.
		Tribes in the Himalayan foothills have not been as hard-pressed by the intrusions of nontribals.
	www.country-studies.com /india/tribes.html (3965 words)

	Secular-Right India: India's Scheduled Tribes
		The scheduled tribes in India constituted 8.2% of India's population in 2001.
		One of the reasons that Tribes are so opposed to leave their traditional lands is that it is the their only source of livelihood.
		The co-existence of 'tribes' or people of ancient cultures with very diverse urban and modern-rural communities for a few millenia is unique to the Indian sub-continent pre-1947 and post-independent India.
	secular-right.blogspot.com /2006/01/indias-scheduled-tribes.html (1438 words)

	Indian Tribal,Indian Tribal Adventure Tour,Tribes in India
		The tribes of Arunachal Pradesh bear many similarities to the hill tribes, who are mainly dwelling across an arc that extends from the eastern end of the Himalayas through Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand into Laos.
		Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh are highly civilized, well nourished as well as, maintain calm and peaceful environment- there are no land disputes among the tribal folks.
		Where as Orissa the main habitat of the tribal population of north east India is a modern state with an ethnic past that is still resounding.
	www.indianadventureportal.com /tribal (437 words)

	Orissa Tribes of India,Famous Orissa Tribe in North East India,Famous Tribes of Orissa India
		The tribes have adapted the Hindu traditions and culture from centuries, which has merged with their own culture in such a way that it gives a distinct zest to the entire racial.
		Orissan tribes are strong, hard working and simple benevolent tribes, normally like to be reserved and maintain distance from the people of other communities, as they are too shy.
		Tribes believe in worshipping of numerous deities and perform rituals and ceremonies for a blissful life.
	www.indiasite.com /orissa/orissatribes.html (941 words)

	Tribes In India,Major Indian Tribes,Tribal Population of India,Famous Tribes of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tribes In India,Major Indian Tribes,Tribal Population of India,Famous Tribes of India
		North East Tribe of India: The Monpa Tribe Of Tawang, Tiwa, Orissa Tribes
		Tribal Regions in India: Assam, Northeast India, Arunachal Pradesh
	www.indiantravelportal.com /tribes (237 words)

	India's tribes and villagers revive her forests.
		India's Forestry Policy since 1988 has run close to her ancient experience.
		What India believed to be modern, managed forestry has been nothing but disaster, riven with degradation of resources, corruption of administration and alienation of people close to the soil.
		Within ten years of adopting the new approach, an official report [see below]on India's forests in 1999, had figures that suggest depletion of forest area may have been arrested; it may even have increased.
	www.goodnewsindia.com /Pages/content/conservation/forestry02.html (1535 words)

	Orissa Tribes,Orissa Tribal Adventure Tour,Tribes of Orissa in India
		Nestling on the eastern coast of India, Orissa is one of the most exquisite regions dominated by exotic sandy beaches, plenteous wild life, and holy temples famous for their architectural splendor and primitive lifestyle.
		The tribes have adapted the Hindu traditions and culture from centuries, which is mixed with their own culture giving a distinct zest to the entire racial.
		Orissan tribes are strong, assiduous and simple hospitable tribes, normally like to be reserved and maintain distance from the people of other communities, as they are too shy.
	www.indianadventureportal.com /tribal/orissa-tribes.html (548 words)

	Notified tribes of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Criminal Tribes Act of 1952 repealed the notification, i.e.
		The name "Criminal Tribes" is itself a misnomer as no definition of tribe denotes occupation, but they were identified as tribes being their primary occupation.
		In this colonial context, the term "Tribe" connoted the notions of primitiveness and backwardness and hence the assumption that these tribes needed to be civilized or transformed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Notified_tribes_of_India (243 words)

	TRIBES OF ORISSA
		The religion of the Orissa tribes is an admixture of animism, animalism, nature-worship, fetishism, shamanism, anthropomorphism and ancestor worship.
		Among all the tribes conformity to customs and norms and social integration continue to be achieved through their traditional political organizations.
		Even there are some tribes they envisage a better future with the help of art and craft, for the tribals art objects and the skill of the artist is a fit medium to propitiate their deities, Gods and Goddesses.
	www.geocities.com /orissa4u/tribes_of_orissa.htm (5302 words)

	tribes of Madhya Pradesh,information on tribes of india
		The Gonds, the largest of the tribes, managed to maintain their independence and retain their so- called ‘primitive’ ways until the last century.
		The Bards of the Gond continue to sing of the legendary deeds of Lingo-pen, the mythical originator of the Gond tribe.
		All tribe retain myths and legends regarding their origins, and they have songs for the ceremonies of birth and marriage, together with folktales, riddles, and proverbs illustrating their culture heritage.
	www.travelcentralindia.com /inoinhab.html (528 words)

	India holidays from Tribes, the Fair Trade Travel company.
		India holidays are many and varied, but this one is a classic.
		It was the capital of India between the 17th and 19th centuries, and has a wealth of mosques, monuments and forts relating to India's Muslim history.
		Of the original 85 temples, the surviving 25 are amongst the finest in India.
	www.tribes.co.uk /countries/india/north_india_holiday_classic.html (1665 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Scheduled Tribes in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The illiteracy rate in Bihar, the second largest state in India with a population of 69 million (1981) is 74%, and is one of the highest in India, but it is especially high among SCs and STs.
		A vitamin A deficiency is widespread in India and in several other developing countries according to a study that included variables such as age, sex, father's educational status, caste, and the number of Vitamin doses.
		India's police forces have been accused of a bias against tribal peoples in light of their response to a demonstration by tribal peoples in Nagpur.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=75011 (15802 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, British India, Criminality and Colonial Anthropology
		The governance of India having become their responsibility, they were compelled to acquaint themselves with the myriad languages spoken by Indians, and throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there appeared a stream of grammars and dictionaries of Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Kannada, and other Indian languages.
		Of each of these tribes he says that they were declared to be criminal tribes under the Criminal Tribes Act (Act III of 1911), and their designation no doubt appeared to have vindicated Naidu in the belief that these thieves, being criminals by birth or nature, were beyond the pale of redemption (pp.
		Consequent to the criminal tribes and castes being conflated with the thugs, it was also possible to see them as a confederation of inestimably large number of people spread throughout the land, whose activities commensurably took on huge and forbidding dimensions.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/British/Criminality.html (6190 words)

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		India is an amalgam of 437 types of tribes, consists of 8% of the total population.
		Linguistically the tribes of India are broadly classified into four categories, namely (1) Indo - Aryans Speakers, (2) Dravidian Speakers, (3) Tibeto- Burmese speakers and (4) Austric Speakers.
		There are some four hundred tribal languages, which mean that most of the tribes have their own languages.
	www.indiatribaltours.com /Tribes.htm (139 words)

	Meghalaya Tribes,Traditional Tribes in Meghalaya India,Meghalaya Traditional Tribes
		A spike or peak is fixed to the back of the crown, corresponding to the feathers worn by the men folk.
		Like the other tribes in the Northeast, the Khasis also ferment rice-beer, and make spirit out of rice or millets by distillation.
		Till now, the institution of Bachelors' Dormitories that is gradually disappearing amongst the tribes of North Eastern Region, are found in the Garo villages.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /meghalaya/tribes (1127 words)

	Indigenous Tribes on India's Andaman Islands Survive Tsunami Disaster
		India's remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands bore the full brunt of the tsunami, generated by the massive Asian earthquake.
		The island chain is home to several small indigenous tribes, and anthropologists say their already precarious existence may be threatened by the disaster.
		But S. Chatterjee, joint secretary at India's Ministry of Tribal Affairs in New Delhi, tells VOA that aerial surveys indicate the situation may not be as dire as initially predicted.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/gv/2004-12-31-voa58.html (715 words)

	Shop for the tribal cause at Tribes India-Delhi-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tribes' India is more than a treasure chest of Tribal expressions.
		Tribes' India is a marketing arm of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
		Tribes India showcases the exquisite authentic tribal artifacts crafted and sculpted by tribes from all over India.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1021401.cms (263 words)

	India - Tribal Religions
		Among the 68 million citizens of India who are members of tribal groups, the religious concepts, terminologies, and practices are as varied as the hundreds of tribes, but members of these groups have one thing in common: they are under constant pressure from the major organized religions.
		In general, those tribes that remain geographically isolated in desert, hill, and forest regions or on islands are able to retain their traditional cultures and religions longer.
		One of the most studied tribal religions is that of the Santal of Orissa, Bihar, and West Bengal, one of the largest tribes in India, having a population estimated at 4.2 million.
	www.countrystudies.us /india/57.htm (668 words)

	Denotified and Nomadic Tribes in Maharashtra
		The Nomadic and Denotified tribes have a rich heritage of culture that is distinctly different from other social groups and can be easily identified by their dress, dialect, folklore, customs and practices.
		Though the Criminal Tribes Act Enquiry committee had categorically made the recommendations to the Central Government regarding these tribes they were deprived of the Constitutional safeguards due to both the acts of commission and omission.
		While the tribes in the territory included in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka enjoy the constitutional status and priviliedges, the same tribes in the territory of Marathwada region included in Maharashtra are deprived of it for no fault of theirs.
	sickle.bwh.harvard.edu /india_tribes.html (1841 words)

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		Under the terms of the deal, the tribes promise to expel foreign Islamic terrorists from their territories, and not allow their own men to join Taliban operations in Afghanistan.
		The tribes are full of Islamic conservatives, and tribal religious leaders have been turning the fighting into a religious war.
		Moreover, a significant minority of the officers in the army are Islamic conservatives, and the fighting was causing unrest with that important group.
	www.strategypage.com /qnd/india/articles/20060906.aspx (445 words)

	What happened to the rare tribes?-India-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The killer tsunami is feared to have wiped out entire tribes â” already threatened by their precariously small numbers â” perhaps rendering them extinct and snapping the slender tie with a lost generation.
		Officials involved in rescue operations are pessimistic, but still keeping their fingers crossed for the Sentinelese and Nicobarese, the two tribes seen as bearing the brunt of the killer wave.
		Putting their population at about 100, officials say no body count is possible as the tribe had remained isolated.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/973963.cms (301 words)

	JARAWA TRIBES
		India or Bharat, the fifth largest and the second most populated country in the world, is one of the few countries which can boast of an ancient, deep-rooted and diverse culture, which stretches back to 5000 years.
		India has been variously described as "the Mini World", the "epitome of the world" and an "ethnological museum".
		The Nicobarese and Shompens are the Mongoloid tribes that are concentrated in the Nicobar District.
	www.angelfire.com /az/ausaf/jarawa.html (1631 words)

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		The Paradhi community is labeled as ex-criminal tribes on one side and is struggling to stand on its own feet on the other.
		All of them were declared criminal Tribes except the Gav- Paradhis, who had taken to farming and settled well during British rule having a good population in Amravati District.
		In the definition of modern India, an Adivasi means backward, having queer traditions, illiterate and devoid of history.
	www.ambedkar.org /jamanadas/CriminalTribes.htm (1646 words)

	BrightIndia.org
		India's imports rose by 3 per cent to $ 42.2 billion with a share of less than one per cent in 1998.
		India's the second highest in the growth was developing world.
		The Naga tribes dwell in the hilly tract on the eastern frontiers of India.
	www.brightindia.com /facts.html (829 words)

	Naga Tribes of India,Famous Naga Tribe in North East India,Famous Tribes of Nagaland India
		The entire population of the Nagas are tribes and belong to the Indo-Mongoloid family.
		Indo-Mongoloids as these tribes are known are believed to be the 'kiratas' frequently mentioned in the old Sanskrit literature of whom 'Nagas' were a sub-tribe.
		The tribes had been maintaining a life and tradition of their own different to other race.
	www.indiasite.com /nagaland/nagatribes.html (554 words)

	The Branded Tribes of India
		One does not know if the police training academies in India still teach the trainees that certain communities are habitually criminal; but surely the CT Act is a part of the syllabus leading to the discussion of crime-watch.
		The land possessed by the criminal tribes was already alienated during the colonial rule.
		Moreover, the people of India will have to raise their voice and alert the authorities at local and national level to the kind of silent genocide that the DNTs are facing.
	www.pucl.org /from-archives/Dalit-tribal/branded-tribes.htm (1027 words)

	Mudugan tribes of Kerala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Many tribes are taking the advantage of privilege being Aadivasis (Scheduled tribes) many of them are in education especially young generation.
		These Dravidian tribes have been in these forests for ages depend on forest resources and agriculture, breeding bees for honey and wax and hunting.
		In most the tribes in India; This good system of marriage prevailed in India since a long time until the aggression of Aryans, they introduced the Dowry system where girls parents have to give against handing over their girl to boy or his parents still followed by us.
	www.sadashivan.com /quotpovertyquotampquottribesquot/id14.html (1277 words)

	Language in India
		Linguistic Survey of India calls the language in question as Thado only and comments that "the denomination Kuki-Chin is a purely conventional one, there being no proper name comprising all these tribes." "The words Kuki and Chin are synonymous and are both used for many of the hill tribes in question.
		Sociologically and anthropologically these non-Naga tribes believe that their customs and social organizations are akin to each other among themselves and that these are different from the ones found among the Nagas.
		But this move also was opposed by many leaders of the non-Naga tribes, because they feared that their separate identity attained after a period of struggle will be lost and that the most populous Lushai section of the Mizo group would begin to dominate over other smaller communities.
	www.languageinindia.com /sep2005/thadouversuskuki2.html (3058 words)

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