It was probably my fourth visit to the tribal belt in south Odisha — an Indian state along the country’s eastern coast — when I was talking to the locals about their sacred cave up in the hills, of ...

A survey was conducted to study the genetic differentiation among 16 tribal groups of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra belonging to different ethnic and linguistic affiliations. Sixteen hundred ...

The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2024, passed by Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha this week adds two new tribes to the existing 62 in the list in Odisha. They are the Muka Dora ...

Every year, in late February, the Dongria Kondh tribe of the eastern Indian state of Orissa gathers at the top of Niyamgiri mountain to celebrate the annual festival of Niyam Raja, the king of the ...

This paper deals with cross-sectional studies carried out during the period 2004-2007. It is based on eight data sets of tribals of Paschim Medinipur and Bankura Districts of West Bengal and Keonjhar ...

BHUBANESWAR : In a long-awaited move that would open up the gates of development for a number of tribal communities of Odisha, the Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. More than a month after Cyclone Phailin battered Orissa, tribes in the eastern Indian coastal state ...

Mangala Muduli from the Bonda tribe in Odisha has become the first member from his community to study medicine. The 19-year-old boy has got admission at MKCG Medical College in Berhampur after ...