Adivasi means first settlers in Hindi - India's indigenous people

Adivasi communities survive mostly in economic niches

The nomadic Dhangars raise sheep in Maharashtra

Maldaris of Gujarat travel on camel and drive large cattleherds across western India

Women from the wandering Banjara community, said to be distant relatives of the Sinti and Roma in Europe

Traditional fisherfolk at the beach in Puri, Orissa

Santal refugees in a camp in Assam, driven from their home by violent ethnic clashes