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MONPAS

The Monpa are known for wood carving, thangka painting, carpet making and weaving.

They manufacture handmade paper called mon shugu from the bark of the local Shugu Sheng tree.

A printing press can be found in the Tawang Monastery, where many religious texts are printed on local paper and wooden blocks, usually meant for Monpa Lamas.

They are also known for their wooden bowls and bamboo weaving.

AJI LAMU is the folk dance of Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh.

Pantomime dances are the principal feature of the Aji Lamu.

Major festivals of Monpas are :

LOSAR - Tibetan New Year

CHOKSAR - Harvest festival

TORGYA - To ward off any kind of external aggression and to protect people from natural disasters.

NOTABLE MONPAS

🟠 6th Dalai Lama

🟠 Ngawang Tashi Bapu, popularly known as "Lama Tashi", Grammy Award nominee in the Traditional World Music category, 2006.

🟠 Dorjee Khandu, former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

🟠 Pema Khandu, son of Dorjee Khandu and the current Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

The 1000-year old heritage art of handmade papers of Monpa community in Arunachal Pradesh has emerged once again after years of extinction in the state.

Monpa Handmade Paper was once produced in every household in Tawang & exported to Tibet, Bhutan, Myanmar, & Japan among others.

It has great religious & cultural significance.

Recently, KVIC has started the revival of this disappearing art form.

Monpa Handmade Paper is called "Mon Shugu".

It is a 1000-year old environment-friendly tradition.

➡️ Made from the bark of a local tree called Shugu Sheng.

➡️ Trees don't have to be cut for making Mon Shugu.

➡️ No chemicals are used in the making of this paper.

The criteria followed for determination of PVTGs are as follows:

1⃣ A pre-agriculture level of technology

2⃣ A stagnant or declining population

3⃣ Extremely low literacy

4⃣ A subsistence level of economy

Dhebar commission (1960-61) suggested that there exists inequality amongst tribal communities in terms of their development.

In 1975, based on the Dhebar Commission report, the government created Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) as a separate category and identified 52 such groups.

In 1993, 23 more groups were added making it 75 PTGs.

In 2006, the Government of India renamed the PTGs as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs).

STATISTICAL OVERVIEW OF PVTGs IN INDIA

Among the 75 listed PVTGs, the highest number are found in Odisha (13), followed by Andhra Pradesh (12), Bihar including Jharkhand (9) Madhya Pradesh including Chhattisgarh (7) Tamil Nadu (6) Kerala and Gujarat having five groups each.

The remaining PVTGs live in West Bengal (3) Maharashtra (3), two each in Karnataka and Uttarakhand and one each in Rajasthan, Tripura and Manipur.

All the four tribal groups in Andaman + one in Nicobar Islands are recognised as PVTGs.

The Saharia tribe of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are the largest among the PVTGs with population >4 lakhs.

Smallest population size among the PVTGs are the Sentinelese.

Heard of the Siddi community ? The African-origin tribe in Karnataka is turning to sports.

Tribal Indians of African origin mostly living in Gujarat & Karnataka - once our biggest Olympic hope in 80s.

Athletics has been an important part of the Siddi community and has been a means to uplift youth and a means of escape from poverty and discrimination.

DID YOU KNOW : that an AFRICAN TRIBE has been living in India since 7th century A.D.?

They were brought as slaves to India first by the Arabs, then later by the Portuguese and the British.

Siddis are descendants of the Bantu tribe of Southeast Africa.

In Gujarat, Siddis are settled around Sasan Gir National Park, Gujarat.

In Karnataka, they are settled in the coastal districts of Uttara Kannada.

The Siddi are recognized as a Scheduled Tribe (ST) in Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka and Daman & Diu.

They are classified as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG).

ZIRO VALLEY OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH

Ziro is a town and the district headquarters of the Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh.

It is included the Tentative List for UNESCO's World Heritage Site for the Apatani cultural landscape.

It is famous for its surrounding pine-clad gentle hills and its rice fields.

Ziro Valley is home to the Apatani tribe.

APATANI CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

Their wet rice cultivation system and their agriculture system are extensive even without the use of any farm animals or machines. So is their sustainable social forestry system.

UNESCO has included the Apatani valley in its Tentative list of World Heritage Sites for its "extremely high productivity" and "unique" way of preserving the ecology.

Paddy fields are everywhere in Ziro Valley. Rice constitutes the staple diet of the Apatanis.

The farmers here rear fish in paddy fields and grow millet on the bunds/partitions between the rice plots.

There is efficient conservation of crucial watersheds, ensuring perennial streams flowing into the valley to meet the needs of the people.

The tribe has an elected village council, called bulyan, for maintenance of law and order.

This has made the Ziro Valley a good example of a living cultural landscape where humans and the environment have harmoniously existed together in a state of interdependence even through changing times.

KIWIS OF ZIRO VALLEY

The kiwis that grow wild in Arunachal Pradesh’s Ziro Valley are the only certified organic fruit of their kind in India.

Arunachal Pradesh is the first State in India to obtain Organic Certification for Kiwi under Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East Region (MOVCD-NER).

The Naara-Aaba wine is made from kiwis grown in Arunachal Pradesh.

A pure kiwi wine that is made from the organic fruit sourced from her personal orchard as well as those from the Kiwi Growers Cooperative Society in Arunachal Pradesh.

The unique Naara-Aaba Kiwi Wine is traditionally made by the Apatani Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh.

ZIRO VALLEY OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH

Ziro is a town and the district headquarters of the Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh.

It is included the Tentative List for UNESCO's World Heritage Site for the Apatani cultural landscape.

It is famous for its surrounding pine-clad gentle hills and its rice fields.

Ziro Valley is home to the Apatani tribe.

APATANI CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

Their wet rice cultivation system and their agriculture system are extensive even without the use of any farm animals or machines. So is their sustainable social forestry system.

UNESCO has included the Apatani valley in its Tentative list of World Heritage Sites for its "extremely high productivity" and "unique" way of preserving the ecology.

Paddy fields are everywhere in Ziro Valley. Rice constitutes the staple diet of the Apatanis.

The farmers here rear fish in paddy fields and grow millet on the bunds/partitions between the rice plots.

There is efficient conservation of crucial watersheds, ensuring perennial streams flowing into the valley to meet the needs of the people.

The tribe has an elected village council, called bulyan, for maintenance of law and order.

This has made the Ziro Valley a good example of a living cultural landscape where humans and the environment have harmoniously existed together in a state of interdependence even through changing times.

KIWIS OF ZIRO VALLEY

The kiwis that grow wild in Arunachal Pradesh’s Ziro Valley are the only certified organic fruit of their kind in India.

Arunachal Pradesh is the first State in India to obtain Organic Certification for Kiwi under Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East Region (MOVCD-NER).

The Naara-Aaba wine is made from kiwis grown in Arunachal Pradesh.

A pure kiwi wine that is made from the organic fruit sourced from her personal orchard as well as those from the Kiwi Growers Cooperative Society in Arunachal Pradesh.

The unique Naara-Aaba Kiwi Wine is traditionally made by the Apatani Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh.

PARDHI - A DENOTIFIED TRIBE

Decades after denotification, the Pardhi Tribe still struggles to shrug off 'Criminal' tag.

• Pardhis were prolific hunters. They were experts in ancient weaponry like Bows & arrows, swords and hunting traps. This made them highly efficient in guerrilla warfare.

• They were a nuisance for the British Empire along with other 150 Tribes of India who participated in 1857 revolt.

• There were numerous other revolts against British by these tribal communities.

• To keep these tribal communities in check, British brought the Criminal Tribes Act and branded these tribes as criminals from birth.

• The criminal branding of the tribe goes back to 1871 after the British passed the "Criminal Tribes Act".

About a 150 tribes were branded as criminal and the police were given sweeping powers to arrest them and watch over their movements.

• After independence, in 1952, the Pardhi tribe was denotified as "criminal" and named as a nomadic tribe.

• However, this has not changed the public perception of the tribe and they continue to be stigmatized and live as outcasts, further aggravating their economic hardships.

Why Pardhis are crucial to LESSER FLORICAN (smallest bird of the Bustard family) conservation efforts?

STATISTICAL OVERVIEW OF PVTGs IN INDIA

Among the 75 listed PVTGs, the highest number are found in Odisha (13), followed by Andhra Pradesh (12), Bihar including Jharkhand (9) Madhya Pradesh including Chhattisgarh (7) Tamil Nadu (6) Kerala and Gujarat having five groups each.

The remaining PVTGs live in West Bengal (3) Maharashtra (3), two each in Karnataka and Uttarakhand and one each in Rajasthan, Tripura and Manipur.

All the four tribal groups in Andaman + one in Nicobar Islands are recognised as PVTGs.

The Saharia tribe of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are the largest among the PVTGs with population >4 lakhs.

Smallest population size among the PVTGs are the Sentinelese.

Heard of the Siddi community ? The African-origin tribe in Karnataka is turning to sports.

Tribal Indians of African origin mostly living in Gujarat & Karnataka - once our biggest Olympic hope in 80s.

Athletics has been an important part of the Siddi community and has been a means to uplift youth and a means of escape from poverty and discrimination.

MONPAS

The Monpa are known for wood carving, thangka painting, carpet making and weaving.

They manufacture handmade paper called mon shugu from the bark of the local Shugu Sheng tree.

A printing press can be found in the Tawang Monastery, where many religious texts are printed on local paper and wooden blocks, usually meant for Monpa Lamas.

They are also known for their wooden bowls and bamboo weaving.

AJI LAMU is the folk dance of Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh.

Pantomime dances are the principal feature of the Aji Lamu.

Major festivals of Monpas are :

LOSAR - Tibetan New Year

CHOKSAR - Harvest festival

TORGYA - To ward off any kind of external aggression and to protect people from natural disasters.

NOTABLE MONPAS

🟠 6th Dalai Lama

🟠 Ngawang Tashi Bapu, popularly known as "Lama Tashi", Grammy Award nominee in the Traditional World Music category, 2006.

🟠 Dorjee Khandu, former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

🟠 Pema Khandu, son of Dorjee Khandu and the current Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

PM recently shared inspiring environmental friendly practices adopted by Monpa tribe of Arunachal Pradesh in its traditional paper making.

The 1000-year old heritage art of handmade papers of Monpa community in Arunachal Pradesh has emerged once again after years of extinction in the state.

Monpa Handmade Paper was once produced in every household in Tawang & exported to Tibet, Bhutan, Myanmar, & Japan among others.

It has great religious & cultural significance.

Recently, KVIC has started the revival of this disappearing art form.

Monpa Handmade Paper is called "Mon Shugu".

It is a 1000-year old environment-friendly tradition.

➡️ Made from the bark of a local tree called Shugu Sheng.

➡️ Trees don't have to be cut for making Mon Shugu.

➡️ No chemicals are used in the making of this paper.

The criteria followed for determination of PVTGs are as follows:

1⃣ A pre-agriculture level of technology

2⃣ A stagnant or declining population

3⃣ Extremely low literacy

4⃣ A subsistence level of economy

Dhebar commission (1960-61) suggested that there exists inequality amongst tribal communities in terms of their development.

In 1975, based on the Dhebar Commission report, the government created Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) as a separate category and identified 52 such groups.

In 1993, 23 more groups were added making it 75 PTGs.

In 2006, the Government of India renamed the PTGs as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs).