In Hindi "Adivasi" means First Settlers - India's indigenous people

The mountainous plateau of Chota Nagpur has the largest concentration of adivasi communities in India

Munda, Santal, Oraon and Ho are the largest communities here

Impressions and portraits from villages of the Santal and Mudi people

Due to its rich mineral deposits (coal, iron ore, uranium et al) Jharkhand is one of the richest states of India. But its people, a good thirty percent of them Adivasi, are amongst India's poorest!

Statue of Birsa Munda who led a Munda uprising against Britisch colonial rule