Tribal Identity

Adivasis

There are about four hundred or so Adivasi communities of India. 
Tribal peoples are particularly numerous in the Indian states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and in the north eastern states.

Many tribals are hunters and gatherers or farmers, and live in isolation in hills and forests practicing their own distinct culture and religion. They are sensitive to ecological degradation caused by modernization; both commercial forestry and intensive agriculture have proved destructive to the forests that had endured slash and burn agriculture for many centuries.

 

Anand Shyam is an accompished
Gond artist

Lokmi Sabar is a Soara shaman living in Southern Orissa

Jivya Soma Masche and his family are Warli artists