At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The b ...

Until March 31, 1937, the British categorised them as ‘backward classes’. It was under the Government of India Act 1935 that they were first scheduled as tribes, a practice that was retained in ...

A zoomed-in map depicting Manipur, India and its topography. ... seven have more than 30 percent of their population earmarked as Scheduled Tribes according to India’s 2011 Census.

Known as “criminal tribes” during the British era, and de-notified tribes in independent India, communities continue to face colonial stigma, torture and discrimination even today ...

Kamala Kadria, third from right, a woman from the Gadaba Indigenous community, points to a spot on a map they made as others look on in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, in India's eastern ...