Adivasi Facts for Kids

The Adivasi people of India look very different from the Dravidians and Aryans. Adivasi people face discrimination and it's hard for them to get jobs in the city areas. These groups have survived in the forest and mountain regions in India for many years. They were the first to inhabit India.

Adivasis are mostly classified as Dalits which is the lowest caste in india.

Adivasi people are facing discrimination for their skin color, their beliefs and their ethnicity.

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Women of Paniya community in Kerala
Gondi women in Umaria district, India
Kurukh Oraon
Adivasi languages in Bangladesh
A Jarawa themed museum, showing causal clothing styles. The Jarawa are one of the indigenous South Asians groups of the Andaman Islands.
Irula men from the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu, c.1871
Irula man and woman.
Scarification, a traditional symbol of Great Andamanese tribal identity (1901 photo)
Paniya tribal girl from Kerala in southern India
Woman of Banni tribe in traditional attire from Gujarat
Young Baiga women in Madhya Pradesh
Tribal folks from Odisha.
Saharia tribe
Bhil tribe
Gond tribe
Gond tribe
Saharia tribe
Kutia Kondh tribe in Odisha.
Adivasi Children of Gujarat
Chenchu man hunting, Nallamala Forests, Andhra Pradesh.
A group of Irula men photographed (1871–72).
A Karbi man of West Karbi Anglong in traditional attire, wearing a Poho (white turban), a choi-hongthor (woven jacket), a lek paikom (gold-plated necklace) and another poho on his right shoulder.
Naga man dressed in traditional attire from Nagaland
Ethnic Mizo school children in Hnahthial, 2015
Chakma women of the Chittagong hill tracts
a Marma mother and son
a Munda man
a Munda woman
a Chakma woman
Khasia tribe house
a Garo mother and child
Indoor dance performance
a Chakma man

Adivasi facts for kids

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