Can some tell me about tribals of british india? and more about them pls i need it today for my assingnment?

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Can some tell me about tribals of british india? and more about them pls i need it today for my assingnment?

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Ādivāsis, literally "original inhabitants", comprise a substantial indigenous minority of the population of India. Indian tribals are also called Atavika (forest dwellers, in Sanskrit texts), Vanvasis

These autochthonous people, popularly known as the Tribal peoples are particularly numerous in the Indian states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and in extreme northeastern states such as Mizoram. Officially recognized by the Indian government as "Scheduled Tribes" in the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of India, they are often grouped together with scheduled castes in the category "Scheduled Castes and Tribes", which is eligible for certain affirmative action measures.

They have their own tribal religions which are different than Islam or Vedic Hinduism but more close to Tantric Shiavism. During the 19th century, substantial numbers converted to Christianity and Brahmoism (modern Hindu sect).

Popular Adivasi gods include Lord Rama, Sabari, Shiva and Birsa Munda.

Maharishi Valmiki, the author of the Ramayana was a Bhil Adivasi.

Tribal peoples constitute 8.3% of the nation's total population, over 84 million people according to the 2001 census. One concentration lives in a belt along the Himalayas stretching through Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand in the west, to Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, and Nagaland in the northeast. In the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland, more than 90% of the population is tribal. However, in the remaining northeast states of Assam, Manipur, Sikkim, and Tripura, tribal peoples form between 20 and 30% of the population.

Another concentration lives in the hilly areas of central India (Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and, to a lesser extent, Andhra Pradesh); in this belt, which is bounded by the Narmada River to the north and the Godavari River to the southeast, tribal peoples occupy the slopes of the region's mountains. Other tribals, including the Santals, live in Jharkhand and West Bengal. Central Indian states have the country's largest tribes, and, taken as a whole, roughly 75% of the total tribal population live there, although the tribal population there accounts for only around 10% of the region's total population.

Tribals are not part of the caste system. This is an eglitarian society. Christian tribals do not automatically lose their traditional tribal rules.

When in 1891 a missionary asked 150 Munda Christians to "inter-dine" with people of different rank, only 20 Christians did so, and many converts lost their new faith.

Participation in Indian independence movement

There were tribal reform and rebellion movements during the period of the British Empire, some of which also participated in the Indian freedom struggle or attacked mission posts.[14] There were several Adivasis in the Indian independence movement including Khajya Naik, Bhima Naik, Jantya Bhil and Rehma Vasave.

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List of rebellions against British rule

During the period of British rule, India saw the rebellions of several backward-castes, mainly tribals that revolted against British rule. These were:[15].

Halba rebellion (1774-79)

Chamka rebellion (1776-1787)[16]

Chuar rebellion in Bengal (1795-1800)[17]

Bhopalpatnam Struggle (1795)

Khurda Rebellion in Orissa (1817)[18]

Bhil rebellion (1822-1857)[19]

Paralkot rebellion (1825)

Tarapur rebellion (1842-54)

Maria rebellion (1842-63)

First Freedom Struggle (1856-57)

Bhil rebellion, begun by Tantya Tope in Banswara (1858)[20]

Koi revolt (1859)

Gond rebellion, begun by Ramji Gond in Adilabad (1860)[21]

Muria rebellion (1876)

Rani rebellion (1878-82)

Bhumkal (1910)