Question

Write a short note on culture and practices of adivasis.

Answer 1

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• Adivasis practise a range of tribal religions that are different from Islam, Hinduism and Christianity.
• These often involve the worship of ancestors, village and nature spirits like – ‘mountain-spirits’, ‘river-spirits’, ‘animal-spirits’, etc.
• The village spirits are often worshipped at specific sacred groves within the village boundary while the ancestral ones are usually worshipped at home.
• Adivasis have their own languages (most of them radicallydifferent from and possibly as old as Sanskrit).

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