Question

1. Who are tribal people ?
2. Name some tribal communities living in different parts of India.
3. What is deforestation ?
4. What are some occupations of the tribal people ?
5. What are sacred groves ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. People living in groups completely cut off by the rest of the world and technology.

2. Tribes of Lakshwadeep Islands.

3. Cutting down of trees on a large scale.

4. Hunting fishing and lumbering.

5. Places belonging to god.

Answer 2

Answer :-

1. The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant usage of the term is in the discipline of anthropology.

2. Some tribal communities living in different parts of India are :-

Gonds Tribes.

Bhils Tribes.

Santhal Tribes.

Great Andamanese Tribes.

Khasi Tribes.

Garo Tribes.

Angami Tribes.

Munda Tribes etc.

3. Deforestation refers to the decrease in forest areas across the world that are lost for other uses such as agricultural croplands, urbanization, or mining activities.

4. The major followed occupation of the tribal people was agriculture. But there were also hunter-gatherers or herders. Most often they combined these activities to make full use of the natural resources of the area in which they lived.

5. A sacred grove or sacred woods are any grove of trees that are of special religious importance to a particular culture. Sacred groves feature in various cultures throughout the world.