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Some scholars suggest that the term Bhil is derived from the word billa or billu which means bow in the Dravidian lexis.The term Bhil is used to refer to "various ethnic communities" living in the forests and hills of Rajasthan's southern parts and surrounding regions of western India, highlighting the "popularity of the bow and arrow as a weapon among these groups".
The tribal population in India, although a small minority, represents an enormous diversity of groups. They vary in language and linguistic traits, ecological settings in which they live, physical features, size of the population, the extent of acculturation , dominant modes of making a livelihood , level of development and social stratification .
In collaboration with Church centric bible translation, Free Bibles India has published a Gujarati translation online. [12] In 2016, the New Testament of New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released by Jehovah's Witnesses in Gujarati. [13] [14] [15] with mobile versions released through JW Library application in App stores.
The doubts, however, are based ultimately on the definition and meaning which different scholars give to the term 'tribe', its adjective 'tribal', and its abstract form 'tribalism'. [5] Despite the membership boundaries for a tribe being conceptually simple, in reality they are often vague and subject to change over time.
The term "Hindu" is derived from Persian meaning "Indo" (or Indian), hence the official word "Hinduism" broadly refers to all the native cultures of the Indian subcontinent. The 1955 Hindu Marriage Act "[defines] as Hindus anyone who is not a Christian , Muslim , or Jew ".
Pashtunwali (Pashto: پښتونوالی), also known as Pakhtunwali and Afghaniyat, [1] is the traditional lifestyle or a code of honour and tribal code of the Pashtun people, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, by which they live. Many scholars widely have interpreted it as being "the way of the Pashtuns" or "the code of life". [2]
In collaboration with Church centric bible translation, Free Bibles India has published a Hindi translation online. In 2016, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released by Jehovah's Witnesses as a complete Bible translation in Hindi. [13] This replaced the earlier partial translation comprising only the New Testament. [14]
The population of Gujarat in the 2011 Census of India was 60,439,692. Of this, 8,917,174 people belong to one of the Scheduled Tribes (STs), constituting 14.75 percent of the total population.