02-22-2010, 09:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-22-2010, 09:36 PM by Bharatvarsh2.)
The Indian media has made this missionary induced term "adivasis" the norm so much so that even supposed Hindu activists use it.
It is a very misleading term and translates to "aboriginal" in English which is a big lie in the Indian context.
Several of these tribes like the Ahoms & others were rather late entrants into India as Elst documents and cannot by any stretch of the imagination be designated as the original inhabitants.
After 5000 years of mixing there are no "aboriginals" in India anymore except on the Andaman islands.
The traditional Hindu terms for tribals were vanavasis or girijans.
It is a very misleading term and translates to "aboriginal" in English which is a big lie in the Indian context.
Several of these tribes like the Ahoms & others were rather late entrants into India as Elst documents and cannot by any stretch of the imagination be designated as the original inhabitants.
After 5000 years of mixing there are no "aboriginals" in India anymore except on the Andaman islands.
The traditional Hindu terms for tribals were vanavasis or girijans.