This tribe is chiefly found in Tamil Nadu and Palakkad district of Kerala. In recent times they help in catching snakes and collect the snake venom. These tribals also work as fishermen, and as labourers in the rice fields at the time of sowing and harvesting or in the rice mills. Who are they?
(A) Gond
(B) Bhil
(C) Irula
(D) Bhutia
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- From the given question the correct option is (C) Irula.
- The Irula tribe, one of India’s oldest indigenous communities, lives along the borders of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
- Irulas are specialists in traditional herbal medicine and healing practices, and Irula ‘vaidyars’
- Anti-venom serum is made by immunizing horses with gradually increasing doses of snake venom, which, in turn, is always in high demand because it is the most effective cure to treat potentially fatal snake bites.
- The cooperative is now the largest producer of venom in India.
- traditionally live in huts called chalas.
- They are mainly agriculturalists and their cultivation crops like (paddy, Raggi, dhal, plantains, chilies, and turmeric).
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