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Changpas Of Ladakh: Their Pashmina Wool & Nomadic Tribal Lifestyle Rupshu is home to the Changpa nomads, who live here throughout the year, enduring sub- frigid winters with temperatures dropping 40 degrees below the freezing point. The Changpas of Ladakh are a small and detached population of the Changpa people living in western Tibet. In […]

Conserving ‘Toda Buffalo’ – Named After ‘Toda Tribe’ Polker Kuttan, a 72-year-old Toda tribal from the Nilgiris, is like a local weather expert – he can predict the onset or delay of the seasonal rains and even the duration of each spell. Polker says that just a whiff of the flowers found in the mund (Toda settlements)

Tribal Community Conservation Model Protects Wildlife Habitats 15-year-old community conserved area (CCA) model followed in Western Arunachal Pradesh has helped in involving the villagers in conservation initiatives in forests that lie outside protected areas by ensuring security to their traditional custodianship and user rights over the natural resources. “Entire villages have come together to secure

Trifood Project of TRIFED TRIFOOD Scheme is a joint initiative of Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Ministry of Tribal Affairs and TRIFED. Under this scheme a tertiary value addition center will be set up in Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh and Raigad in Maharashtra at a cost of approximately Rs.11 crores. TRIFOOD Scheme, implemented in the backdrop

The Naga Peace Process Is Lost Between Integration and Unification The current stalemate is rooted in the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) NSCN-IM’s decision not to use the framework agreement as a point of departure to build consensus over the final agreement. More importantly, instead of using the framework agreement as a point of

Denotified 68 Years Ago, ‘Criminal’ Tribes Still Fight Stigma, Poverty August 31 is celebrated as Liberation Day by Denotified Nomadic Tribes across India, every year this day is celebrated as Vimukti Diwas or Liberation Day by DNTs across the country. Dakxin, who is also the national convener of DNT Adhikar Manch, said they want the

Fading identity amid urban growth – nomads were crucial to the British era in a variety of sectors, including acrobatics, handicrafts, animal husbandry, storytelling, tattooing, fortune telling, and ayurvedic medicine. However, these nomadic tribes have lost their jobs, status, and identities in modern society as a result of modernization and rural expansion. They suffered greatly

Manipur’s Kukis demand Bodoland-like territorial council, unhappy about delays in talks Kuki rebel groups are wary of central govt’s talks with NSCN (I-M) and delay in their own talks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which they label ‘procrastination’. As the union government and leaders of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak- Muivah) continue their

Nomadic Van Gujjars in northern India fear remaining in the forest while their resettled relatives struggle to adjust. The Van Gujjars are a forest-dwelling community who live in several different pockets spread across northern India’s lower Himalayan region. The Van Gujjars Name The name ’Van Gujjar’ loosely translates to ‘forest pastoral community’. ‘Van’ in Hindi