Q.6. Define the following
A. Adivasi.
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Adivasi or Vanvasi are the collective term for tribes of the Indian subcontinent, who are considered indigenous to places within India wherein they live, either as foragers or as tribalistic sedentary communities .
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Tribals are also referred to as Adivasis. Adivasis–literally means ‘original inhabitants’ or Adivasis are the collective term for tribes of the Indian subcontinent, who lived and continue to live, in close association with forests.
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- They usually live in the places like forest, or hilly regions.
- Experts say that Adivasis arrived in Indian sub-continent region during the great human migration from Africa
- They are also know as forest guardians
- About 8% of India’s population is Adivasi and most of the country’s mining and industrial centres are located in Adivasi
- Adivasi' is derived from Sanskrit and means 'the earliest inhabitants'
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