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Friday, April 3, 2026
TopicAdivasi

Topic: Adivasi

Scheduled Tribes finance body got just 2% of Rs 750 crore it sought from Centre, defunct in 6 states

In its findings, a parliamentary panel also finds poor reach of schemes overseen by National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation through state agencies.

How do postal stamps show adivasis? The same way the British did

Birsa Munda is on many stamp covers – 1988 to 2023. There are none of Jaipal Singh Munda, member of India’s Constituent Assembly, Olympic gold medalist, and writer.

Census code for Sarna faith — why Jharkhand CM Champai Soren is raising tribal demand ahead of polls

Long-pending demand for separate Sarna code in census has been at heart of tribal stirs. JMM & Congress had tried to corner BJP on the issue during LS polls.

Mumbai’s Parsi sahibs have an inconvenient secret—tribal cousins in distant Gujarat villages

There’s a subtle caste system in place. Most Mumbai Parsis don’t want to discuss their tribal brethren. Priests refuse to live in the villages and no fire temples have been built.

‘Largest number of uniformed persons punished by law’—But Vachathi women’s battle not over yet

A historic judgment passed on 29 September upholds the guilty conviction of the hundreds accused. It’s not enough for the people of Vachathi, which was once Veerappan’s territory.

Meet Chuni Kotal, the Dalit Advasi woman from Bengal who battled stigma in Indian education

Kotal was the first woman from the Lodha Savaras tribe to graduate and became an idol for the new generation of Dalit Adivasis and women.

India’s Brahmins, Baniyas gained from English. BJP-RSS want to deny that to Dalits, Adivasis

First Brahmins benefited from the pro-English agitations of Tamil people. Now Amit Shah's agenda is harming Shudra/Dalit/Adivasi global job prospects.

Jharkhand MLAs question govt on ‘police repression’ of tribals, demand inquiry into deaths

The MLAs cited a report by ThePrint Hindi, published on 15 March, on alleged police repression against Adivasis in the state. Investigation ongoing in some cases, say Jharkhand Police.

When Nehru was asked what India’s stance towards tribals should be, he said ‘humility’

In ‘Being Adivasi’, Meenakshi Natarajan writes that Nehru believed we should neither consider tribal beliefs inferior nor impose our rituals and thoughts on them.

Meet Kanaka Raju, 80, Padma Shri awardee who has kept tribal folk dance Gussadi alive

A veteran practitioner of the folk dance Gussadi, Kanaka Raju emphasises the need for financial support to save the tradition from dying out

On Camera

India’s AI Mission is flying blind without technocrats

While the rest of the world has converged on a model—technical judgement inside the institution, as a permanent organisational property—India remains a conspicuous and costly outlier.

Tanker with 600,000 barrels of Iranian crude shifts course from India to China midway

The shipment earlier bound for Gujarat’s Vadinar has changed course amid payment concerns; could still reach India if issues are resolved, according to Kpler.

India commissions its third nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine—INS Aridhaman

INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.