(Tribals, Dikus and the vision of a Golden Age)
1. Who gave account of time bound work done by Baiga and Khond of Central India?
2. What is studied under anthropology?
3. Give month wise account of work Baigas and Khond tribes performs throughout the year.
4. What difficulties of tribal people were narrated in song by Baigas tribal group?
5. How Munda tribe song sang reflects their miseries?
6. Give a brief life sketch of Birsa Munda.
7. What two major changes happend after Birsa Munda's movement ?
Answers
Answer:
1. Khonds
2. Anthropology is the study of what makes us human. Anthropologists take a broad approach to understanding the many different aspects of the human experience, which we call holism. They consider the past, through archaeology, to see how human groups lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and what was important to them.
3. Baiga
4. The problems faced by tribals are poverty, illiteracy, identity crisis etc. widespread poverty is the major issue among the tribals of the state. But the poverty ratio and economic status of the tribals of Assam is better than the national average of the tribals. The literacy rate of tribal in Assam is 86.8 percent
5. Usually in the
form of songs or chanting, these verses are expressions of
the close contact between the world of nature and the world
of tribal existence.
6. Birsa Munda was born on 15 November 1875, at Ulihatu in Bengal Presidency, now in the Khunti district of Jharkhand, on a Thursday, and hence named after that day, according to the then prevalent Munda custom. ... His early life could not have been very different from that of an average Munda child.
7. (i)It forced the colonial government to introduce laws so that the land of the tribals could not easily be taken over by dikus. (ii)It showed once again that the tribal people had the capacity to protest against injustice and express their anger against colonial rule.