India is home to one of the world’s largest and most diverse indigenous populations, with more than 700 officially recognised Scheduled Tribes spread across its forests, hills, plains and islands.
Caste-based discrimination in India was codified into law in 1871 by the British colonial authorities when they enacted the Criminal Tribes Act branding several nomadic and indigenous communities as ...
When a government official starts talking about sovereignty, most of the time you can bet they’re trying to justify a bad policy or decision by invoking the sovereignty won by the Founders from the ...
A tribes woman prays during a sit-in demonstration rally to demand of recognizing Sarna Dharma as a religion in Ranchi, capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Oct. 18, 2022. Credit: AP ...
JIRKATANG, India (Reuters) - Bollywood music blares from a line of food stalls serving tourists outside the entrance to a thickly-forested tribal reserve on India's far-flung Andaman and Nicobar ...
When a strange white sphere appeared in the skies above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in January 2022, it swiftly became a talking point in this sleepy Indian Ocean archipelago of 430,000 people.