10 Tribes

Baiga tribe
Baiga is a tribe found in Madhya Pradesh and population 250,000, Uttar

Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states of India. The largest number of Baigas is found in Baiga-
chuk in Mandla district and Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. They have sub-castes – Bijhwar,
Narotia, Bharotiya, Nahar, Rai Bhaina, and Kadh Bhaina. Their population as of Census 2001/2011
was 390,000.
Bhotiya
Bhotiya or Bhot (Nepali: भोटिया, Bhotiyā) are groups of ethno-linguistically related Tibetan
people living in the Transhimalayan region of the SAARC countries. The word Bhotiya comes from
the classical Tibetan name for Tibet, Bod. The Bhotiya speak numerous languages
including Ladakhi. The Indian recognition of such language is Bhoti / Bhotia having Tibetan scripts
and it lies in the Parliament of India to become one of the official languages through Eighth Schedule
of the Indian Constitution.
Badagas
The Badugas are the largest aboriginal tribes living in the Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu, India.
Throughout the district the Badugas live in nearly 400 villages, called Hattis. Baduga people speak
the language called "Badugu". The language has no script. Nilgiris was originally a tribal land
Thundu (a white piece of cloth) and Seeley forms an integral part of the attire of the Badugu women.
Badugas marry within their community and follow their own marriage traditions. Their important
festival is Devva Habba. Devva Habba provides significant insights into the origin of Badugas. They
have certain rules and regulations to be followed in implementing their cultural rituals from the birth
of a child and follows through functions like Puberty, Marriage, Naming ceremony, Seventh Month
Pregnancy, Housewarming, Festivals and finally Death ceremony.
Lepcha people
The origin of the Lepcha is Nye Mayel Lyang . They may have originated
in Myanmar, Tibet or Mongolia but the Lepcha people themselves firmly believe that they did not
migrate to the current location from anywhere and are indigenous to the region.[7] They speak
a Tibeto-Burman language which some classify as Himalayish. Based on this, some anthropologists
suggest they emigrated directly from Tibet to the north, or from Eastern Mongolia. They were even
said to be from Japan or Korea, while others suggest a more complex migration that started in
southeast Tibet, a migration to Thailand, Burma, or Japan, then a navigation of the Ayeyarwady
Riverand Chindwin rivers, a crossing of the Patkoi range coming back west, and finally entering
ancient India. While migrating westward through India, they are surmised to have passed through
southern Bhutan before reaching their final destination near Kanchenjunga.
Mizo people
The Mizo people (Mizo: Mizo hnam) are an ethnic group native to north-eastern India,
western Burma (Myanmar) and eastern Bangladesh; this term covers several ethnic peoples who
speak various Mizo languages. The Mizo are one of the hill tribes of South Asia. All the Mizo and
their clans have, in their folk legends, unanimously claimed that there was Chhinlung or Sinlung at
the cradle of the Mizos. Thus, it was assumed that Mizo people lived as cave dwellers at some point,
presumably in pre-historic times. However, this claim is difficult to substantiate given that the Mizo
do not have traditional writing forms, but only oral accounts.
Urali Gounder
Urali Gounder is the combination of the words Ur(land) and Al(people). It denotes that they are
people of the land. Conceptually it must be interesting to note that thousands of place name in the
Dravidian South India and in ‘Ur’. In the madras census report, 1891, the Urali are described as “a
caste of agricultural labourers found chifly in the districts of Madura and Trichinopoly. The word
Urali means a ruler of a village. Like the Ambalakkarans, they trace their descent from one
Matturaja, and the only subdivision returned by any number of mutracha. They also assert that were
formerly employed as soldiers. In the wayand there is a section of kurumbas called
Uralikurumbas,and it is not importable that these Urali of the Tamil country are an offshoot of the
great kurumbas race
Toda people
Toda people are a small pastoral tribal community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau in hill country of
Southern India. Before the 18th century and British colonisation, the Toda coexisted locally with other ethnic
communities, including the Kota, Badagaand Kuruba, in a loose caste-like society, in which the Toda were the top
ranking.[1] During the 20th century, the Toda population has hovered in the range 700 to 900.[1] Although an
insignificant fraction of the large population of India, since the early 19th century the Toda have attracted "a most
disproportionate amount of attention because of their ethnological aberrancy"[1] and "their unlikeness to their
neighbours in appearance, manners, and customs."[1] The study of their culture by anthropologists and linguists
proved significant in developing the fields of social anthropology and ethnomusicology.
Warlis tribe
The Warlis or Varlis are an indigenous tribe or Adivasis, living in mountainous as well as coastal areas
of Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding areas. They have their own animistic beliefs, life, customs and
traditions, as a result of acculturation they have adopted many Hindu beliefs. The Warlis speak an unwritten Varli
language which belong to the southern zone of the Indo-Aryan languages.
Gurjar
Gurjar or Gujjar are a pastoral agricultural ethnic group with populations in India and Pakistan and a small
number in northeastern Afghanistan.[1] Alternative spellings
include Gurjara, Gurjjar, Gojar and Gūjar.[2][3][4][5] Although they are able to speak the language of the country
where they live, Gurjars have their own language, known as Gujari. They variously follow Hinduism, Islam,
and Sikhism.[1][6]The Gurjars are classified as Other Backward Class (OBC) in some states in India; however,
Gurjars in Jammu and Kashmir and parts of Himachal Pradesh are categorised as a Scheduled Tribe.[7][8][9] Hindu
Gurjars were assimilated into various varnas in the medieval period.
Kol people
The term "Kol people" is used in India to refer to two separate groupings of people. In eastern India, Kol is a
generic umbrella term which includes certain closely related Austroasiatic Adivasi groups such as
the Munda and Ho, as well as the Dravidian Kurukh people (Oraon) in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya
Pradesh, Assam, Tripura, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

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