What were the traditional occupations of tribal society
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Various types of occupations, including grazing, hunting (though banned) fishing and agriculture as well as gathering various types of forest materials like lakh, shalac, honey, wood, fruit and roots, medicinal plants and shahtoosh hairs etc.
Agriculture can be slash and burn or sedantary type. Fishing can be mostly primitive type and in Assam done with help of basket etc.
Grazing is also primitive transhumance type mostly where gurjar, bakarwal and bhotiya roam during seasonal changes for fresh green grass for the animals like goats cows, buffaloes and bhotiya mostly graze sheep. In central and south Indian states we have gonds, bhil, mariya, abhujmariya, and kurukh oraon, south has kadar and puliyans.
Answer:
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. Some tribes were nomadic moving from one place to another.