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The Malto or Maler people, also known as Pahariya, are a Dravidian tribal group from the Rajmahal Hills in the northeastern Chota Nagpur Plateau. They are divided into three subgroups: Mal Paharia, Sauria Paharia and Kumarbhag Paharia. [2] All three are listed as Scheduled Tribes in Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
The Sauria Paharias mainly worship their ancestral spirits, known as Jiwe Urkkya ("the spirit that has left"), especially before sowing a new field. The Jiwe Urkkya is at first a fierce spirit, until a feast is given on the 5th day after the funeral, after which he becomes benevolent.
The Mal Paharia people are a people of India, mainly living in the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal. [3] [4] They are the original inhabitants of the Rajmahal Hills, known today as the Santal Parganas division of Jharkhand.
He was Chief Minister of Rajasthan state from 6 June 1980 to 14 July 1981 and was the first Dalit from Rajasthan to hold this position. [4] [1]Pahadia served in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1980 to 1990 then 1998 till 2008.
The habitat of most of the Parhiya is the hilly, undulating and extremely forested southern part of Sonbhadra district, at the foot of the Vindhya mountains.They are endogamous and divided into a number of exogamous clans known as kuris, of which the main ones are the Bengeha, Bhaloa, Bhania, Bhusan, Gohawa, Gurgur, Monnoor and Sira.
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Mal Paharia is a language spoken by 51,000 of 110,000 ethnic Mal Paharia in the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal in India, and regions of Bangladesh.The language is also known as Mal Pahoria, Malto, Malti, Paharia, Parsi, and Mal Pahariya.
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