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Adivasi
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Adivasi [ˈɑːdɪˌvɑːsɪ]
n
(Social Science / Peoples) a member of any of the aboriginal peoples of India
[Sanskrit, from adi beginning + vasi dweller]


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THE Operation Green Hunt being launched by the Indian security forces to fight the Maoists in the forests of Chattisgarh has drawn a lot of flak from intellectuals and rights activists across the country, as it is resulting in hounding out of Adivasis from forests.
Tadoba Lake''s consecrated water is conveyed by Adivasis to shower upon their harvest throughout the rainy season.
A long time before the land grant universities were a norm in the western world, the Adivasis reserved empty tracts of land for educating the young.
 
 
 
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