Talk:Adivasi

Move?
Any objection to moving this page to Adivasi? QuartierLatin1968 01:18, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Parsi tribal status followup
Although absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, I have removed the statement that Parsis have tribal status from both Parsi and Adivasi entries since I can't verify this (either way).

Although I originally added the statement (to Parsi) that Parsis gained tribal status in 2004, I am now of the opinion that this was incorrect. Parsiana (the Parsi community monthly), had absolutely nothing on the subject in 2004, and given how vocal Parsis can become on the subject of receiving (or not) special privileges, I'm sure that the subject would have been covered in depth if it were true.

Fullstop 12:52, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I am sure that Parsi community do not belong to the category of adivasis and the scheduled tribes/ scheduled castes. --Bhadani 13:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Sanskrit?
Does the word adivasi come from the Sanskrit language? 18:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Why do you not respond? 09:28, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The talk pages are specifically for discussing the article, not for general discussion.
 * Adivasi = Adi (original) + Vasi (inhabitant)
 * Hence the words roughly in English is aboriginal, although there is no negative connotation.
 * Also Adi and Vasi are Sanskrit words
 * SDas 23:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

DISCUSS: Proposing MERGER of Adivasis of Orissa into Adivasi
These articles are duplicative and need to be combined.OfficeGirl 06:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Adivasi is a pan India term for a 'Tribal person', whereas the other article is only specific of the adivasis from the Indian state of Orissa, so merging the two articles would be disasterous, only the duplicative material needs to be separated.

Adivasi/Janjati in Nepal
In Nepal there are many indigenous peoples such as Tharu, Magar and Kham, Gurung, Tamang, Rai and Limbu who are called Adivasi (or Adibasi) and Janjati. Their situation is the same as India's Adivasis, except there might be small differences in government policy toward them. I propose that they be added to this article. LADave (talk) 18:37, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

adivasi or Adivasi
Adivasi is more correct,they are aboriginal communities,having religion Aadim dharma..with Mahadeva/Lord Shiva as Supreme God.This article is clearly a work in progress, and several issues above relate to whether the term is general or specific. At the moment we use 'adivasi' in the early 'Connotations ..' section, and later often capitalise 'Adivasi' especially when referring to ST classification.

In keeping with Manual of Style (capital letters), lower case should be used unless there is a definitive case (sic) for capitalising.

In any case (doh, there we go again) this article should move rapidly towards using one or the other consistently, or else explicitly explain that there are two uses of the term, one general and one specific, captialised accordingly. Earthlyreason (talk) 12:43, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

[Deleted copyright material]..Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigbrothersorder (talk • contribs) 08:26, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * It is against Wikipedia policy (and is illegal) to lift copyrighted material at this scale - so I am deleting it. You could simply have brought in a couple of lines and a set of links rather than do this. Also, you didn't acknowledge the actual authors of this material, which isn't okay in any respect. You stole (basically) material from http://www.aitpn.org/IRQ/Vol-III/issue_4/story09.html, http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Dalit-tribal/2003/adivasi.htm and other sources. You are also in violation of Wikipedia talk guidelines (WP:SOAP). Please don't do this. Many of these exact issues inform the article, except that the article is actually richer and covers them in even more detail. --Hunnjazal (talk) 12:08, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Plagiarism
Several paragraphs have been copied verbatim, unattributed, from "James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden, editors. India: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1995", url: http://countrystudies.us/india/70.htm.

Per WP:PD use is allowed.

Per WP:PLAG it must be properly attributed, which it is not currently. JanetteDoe (talk) 19:04, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Adivasi
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Who coined the term?
Please provide a source citing who coined the term Adivasi and what the reasoning was at the time. I've heard it was A.V. Thakkar... 95.224.3.198 (talk) 20:15, 16 December 2016 (UTC) R.E.D.

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Adivasi categories
Tha article is saying that "Adivasi can be categorised into three grouping i.e. Austro-Asiatic, Caucasoid and Sino-Tibetan", but what's the point of mixing hypothetical language families with races? Also, where are the Australoids who are possibly the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent? Barbar03 (talk) 15:10, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Edits by Dev0745
Could someone take a look at Adivasi? User:Dev0745 is making extensive edits there, but I've the impression that parts of it may be rambling. For example:

Thanks. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk!  16:33, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw that, but was too busy to look at it with any focus or depth. Thanks,  for bringing the edits to the community's notice.   Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  23:07, 1 October 2019 (UTC) Updated  Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  23:08, 1 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello, thanks for discussion. Although I was trying to edit article "Adivasi" but due to different article have different conclusion,It's seem confusing without reading them properly. It would better to write after gaining proper knowledge about it. I am giving link here what many articles talk about i.e Tribal speak five language family such as Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, Tibeto Burman and Andamanese.
 * Brahmin and tribal in North India share same genetic haplogroups:
 * Caste and tribe are derive from same prehistoric genetic inheritance:
 * Whereas according to some article Tribal have independent origin in south india:
 * Austroasiatic speaker are migrants from south-east Asia 4000-3500 year ago. This imply some tribal are not indigenous which contradict the claim of Adivasi(indigenous) by tribals: Sidwell, Paul. 2018. Austroasiatic Studies: state of the art in 2018. Presentation at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 22 May 2018.
 * Austroasiatic speaker are migrants from south-east Asia 4000-3500 year ago. This imply some tribal are not indigenous which contradict the claim of Adivasi(indigenous) by tribals: Sidwell, Paul. 2018. Austroasiatic Studies: state of the art in 2018. Presentation at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 22 May 2018.


 * So thanks, I will try to edit anything after gaining proper knowledge about the topic.(Dev0745 (talk) 01:38, 2 October 2019 (UTC));


 * Note:Reflist added for references--DreamLinker (talk) 02:17, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note 2: reflist removed after turnig refs into list of links. Joshua Jonathan  - Let's talk!  05:03, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

thanks for providing the links. Your intention seems to be good, and the information you provided seems to correct to a certain level - but not completely. It takes time for other editors to check such edits; sigh... Anyway, if you want to try again, be welcome. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk!  06:13, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Linguistic grouping

 * - says:
 * The article then states what language is spoken by various groups in each region. Check: Baigani is an Indo-Aryan language. In that case, the text should state "Tribal languages can be categorised into five linguistic groupings".
 * The article then states what language is spoken by various groups in each region. Check: Baigani is an Indo-Aryan language. In that case, the text should state "Tribal languages can be categorised into five linguistic groupings".


 * - no mention of language affiliation.
 * - subheader: Their presence in India pre-dates the Dravidians, the Aryans and everyone else. It further says:
 * So, Scroll.in does not support the statement. Correct, following those spources, would be the following:
 * So, Scroll.in does not support the statement. Correct, following those spources, would be the following:

Still, is there a more exact definition of Adivasi? And what's "Caucasoid" in this respect? Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk!  06:13, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Genetic studies
On a quick note:

should be

Still, it's not clear what "heterogeneous ethnic groups" means.

Further, 2004 is far outdated. Recent relevant studies are:
 * Basu et al. (2016), Genomic reconstruction of the history of extant populations of India reveals five distinct ancestral components and a complex structure. See Indo-Aryan migrations

Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk!  06:24, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Narasimhan et al. (2019), The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia, Science. Their scenario: ancient Indian hunter-gatherers; ahg + Iranian farmer related people = Indus Valley Civilisation; IVC + Aryans = north India (ANI); IVC + southern hunter-gatherers = Dravidians (ASI); ANI + ASI = all modern Indian peolple, including Adivasi.


 * Different tribal of Indian subcontinent have different genetic origin. According to several genetic studies North Indian and Upper Caste have more ANI ancestry whereas South Indian have low ANI ancestry. This can also be true for Tribals. North Indian tribal can have more ANI ancestry and South Indian have low ANI and more ASI ancestry. Sino-tibetan tribal carry ATB(Ancestor Tibeto Burman) ancestry and Austroasiatic tribal carry AAA(Ancestoral Austroasiatic) ancestry. Andamanese tribal are direct descendant from out of Africa migration. So Basically Tribals are not homogeneous groups but heterogeneous ethnic groups with different origin. (Dev0745 (talk) 08:45, 2 October 2019 (UTC));


 * I see; thanks. Joshua Jonathan  - Let's talk!  09:17, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Definition
The term "indigenous" seems to be obscured; it's not explicitly stated which population should be considered to be 'the first people' of India. From the article:
 * Adivasi is the collective term for the indigenous peoples of India.
 * - inaccessible via Google; 'aborigines' prior to who, or what time?
 * - ah, before the Dravidians.
 * - 'original' prior to who or what?


 * In India, the term Adivasi is used to refer to Scheduled Tribes, although the term indigenous and tribe have different meanings. Indigenous means descent from populations who inhabited the country or region at the time of conquest or colonization, and tribe means a group who are distinguished by their social, cultural and economic conditions from other sections of the community.
 * - not specifically about Adivasi, but about "indigenous and tribal peoples." It certainly doesn't argues that the two terms have different meanings; it explains what the two components of the phrase "indigenous and tribal peoples" means, mentioning the adivasi as such a group. It does not say that the term "adivasi" refers to the scheduled tribes.


 * The word Adivasi means the first inhabitants or the Indigenous People, a phrase recognised by the Supreme Court of India.
 * S. Faizi & Priya K. Nair, 2016. "Adivasis: The World’s Largest Population of Indigenous People," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 59(3), pages 350-353, December - inaccesible via Google.


 * adivāsi carries the specific meaning of being the original and autochthonous inhabitants of a given region. It is a modern Sanskrit word specifically coined for that purpose in the 1930s,


 * from ādi 'beginning, origin' and vāsin 'dweller' (itself from vas 'to dwell'), thus literally meaning ‘original inhabitant’.
 * "Adivasi, n. and adj." OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 10 September 2017.

This is what the Encyclopedia Britannica says:

I have copy-edited the definitions according to a more critical reading of the sources. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk!  07:19, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

I think defination of "Encyclopedia Britannica" is more appropriate. Also the claim that tribal were prior to Dravidian and Indo-Aryan seems incorrect as native language of tribal is also dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages. Tribals have also same haplogroups as Caste population although they carry more ASI genetic. according to recent genetic studies, Austroasiatic tribal arrived in Indian subcontinent around 4000-3500 year ago, which is not before the Dravidian and during same time as stepe pastoralists. So claim that tribal were before Dravidian and Indo-Aryan seems incorrect. (Dev0745 (talk) 08:33, 2 October 2019 (UTC));


 * can you familiarize yourself with the comments above? To claim that "Adivasis" are "indigenous" is a fringe position. To make it even more easy for you, I would ask you to name the tribes you think are "indigenous" and I will tell you how they aren't. >>> Extorc . talk  15:51, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Unless I'm missing something, all the sources above (bar the comment from ) make it clear Adivasi are considered indigenous. That's Britannica, the Lok Sabha definition, Gandhi, Barnes, Gray and Kingsbury, OUP, Faizi and Nair... ie numerous sources that would usually be considered reliable. To claim it as a fringe position requires sources stating that's the case. Dāsānudāsa (talk) 17:04, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * "claim that tribal were before Dravidian and Indo-Aryan seems incorrect" makes it clear. The above quotations show that why this term is dubious and does not have a single meaning when it comes to usage. I called it a fringe position because I am aware of the researches which argue against the claimed indigenousness of the tribes. At best its an activist position and should be highlighted like that and no more weight should be given to this claim. >>> Extorc . talk  12:05, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Draft:List of notable Adivasi people
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Are Adiwasis Hindu?
Are Adiwasis Hindu? RishabhMeemroth (talk) 06:09, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Some; some aren't. There's a "religion" section in the article. Dāsānudāsa (talk) 08:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Adivasis vs NE tribal groups ?
Shouldn't Adivasi and NE tribal groups be considered as separate ? Adivasi is used only for the aboriginal groups of Austroloid origin who today speaks a variety of languages including Indo-Aryan. NE tribals are ST but aren't considered as Adivasis. So there should be separate articles for "Adivasis" and "Tribals of Northeast India". Tizen03 (talk) 10:52, 28 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree, also since the religion part only covers Animism and Hinduism in detail. That doesn't really make sense if the NE tribes are lumped into the article as well, with three majority tribal, majority Christian states in the NER (Christianity in India article). Guduxy (talk) 17:16, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Stand of Government of India
User:Dāsānudāsa, What is problem in including stand of Government of India which doesn't consider Adivasi as only Indigenous people. Government of India consider all citizens of India as indigenous. Whether right or wrong, It is stand of Government of India. Why should it not be added? Dev0745 (talk) 00:06, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
 * It is WP:UNDUE for the lead. The current government of India has lots of fringe views, so we must take what they say with a pinch of salt. Dāsānudāsa (talk) 08:35, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * It's also repetition: the article already says "the government of India does not officially recognise tribes as indigenous people." Dāsānudāsa (talk) 08:36, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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