Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Munda are an ethnic tribal (Adivasi) group of people of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. Munda people are categorised as Scheduled Tribe by Constitution of India which are found in Jharkhand , Chhattisgarh & Orrisa .
Munda are divided into a number of exogamous clans. Clans among Mundas are known as Killi, which is similar to Sanskrit word Kula. Munda are patrilineal, and clan name descends father to son. According to tradition, people of the same clan are descendants of the same forefather. Clans among Mundas are of totemic origin. Some clans are: [28]
Mage Parab (or Mage Porob) is the principal festival celebrated among the Ho people of eastern India, and is also celebrated by the Munda and Bhumij people.It is not celebrated by any other Munda-speaking peoples like Juang, Gadab and is much less prominent to the Mundas (including Bhumijs) than to the Hos. [1] It is held in the month of Mage ponai (Magh month) in honor of the deity Singbonga ...
"Mundari Samaj Sanwar Jamda", a social organisation of the Munda community based in Poda Astia, Mayurbhanj has been demanding to incorporate the Munda language in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, to air Munda language through All India Radio, and establish a Munda language department at North Odisha University for higher ...
The Santal are granted Scheduled Tribe status in five states: Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Tripura, where they account for a total population of 6,570,807 according to the 2011 Census of India. Of this population, 63.15% are reported as Hindu, 23% as Sarna, 7.28% as Sari Dharam (all in West Bengal), and 5.46% as Christian.
Many linguists suggest that the Proto-Munda language probably split from proto-Austroasiatic somewhere in Indochina. [citation needed] Studies by Chaubey et al. (2011), Arunkumaret al. (2015), Metspalu et al. (2018), and Tätte et al. (2019) all show that the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic family was created as the result of a male-biased linguistic intrusion into the Indian subcontinent ...
The plan was to build the plant along the Gulf of Kutch, an inlet of the Arabian Sea that provides a living for fishing clans that harvest the coast’s rich marine life.
Birsa Munda pronunciation ⓘ (15 November 1875 – 9 June 1900) [4] was an Indian tribal independence activist, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) in the late 19th century, during the British Raj, thereby making him an important figure in the history of the Indian ...