A dimension within Cultural Heritage & Identity
This theme explores how language, traditions, and heritage shape individual and tribal identity and lifestyle.
150 voices speak to this
Positive
Overall Community Sentiment
Our tribe is mainly nature-worshipping. Our culture, customs, attire, tradition, and spoken language have a distinct identity that is different from others.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture is the special identity of our being tribal. This includes our attire, food habits, worship, and lifestyle.
— ANIL KUMAR · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our community's language, dialect, cuisine, lifestyle, customs, attire, traditions, and culture are all distinct from others, and this is our identity.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
The main identity of our tribe is our conservative tradition and attire, along with our rituals, spoken language, and prevalent practices related to nature that have been passed down from our ancestors. These are not found in other societies, so this is our identity.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our customs, attire, traditions, spoken language, lifestyle, food habits, and culture are very different from other societies, which is an identity of the tribal community.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture, customs, attire, and spoken language are our identity. We are worshippers of nature, protectors of water, forests, and land, and this very identity makes us completely different from others.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
We, the tribal people, are identified by our culture.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our culture is our identity
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
Our culture, language, and origin are our identity.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Our culture, traditions, customs, food habits, worship, lifestyle, and lineage define our identity.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Our spoken languages, lifestyle, and attire are the identity of our community.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
The factors that define our culture, including our traditions, cultural practices, birth, death, and marriage rituals, are distinct from other tribes, as is our spoken language.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
Our attire, our food, our cooking, our customs, our worship, our traditions, all of this distinguishes us from other tribes.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
Our traditional attire, language, dialect, culture, and customs are our identity which preserve our existence.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our tribe can primarily be identified by its spoken language, lifestyle, and attire.
— SHIVRAM YADAV · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We are tribal people, our traditions are distinct, our culture is distinct. We all want to preserve them.
— Parikshit Majhi
The customs, attire, food habits, culture, and traditions of our community are very different from others, which gives us our identity and distinguishes us from them.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
Tradition and culture are an identity.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM
We are a tribal community. Our language and food are different because of our tribal identity.
— Bharati Khandapatra · Mayurbhanj, Odisha
Our tribal community is a distinct and unique community known for its culture, traditions, and lifestyle.
— Narvada Sarpota
Our tribal community is unique. Our tribal people are distinct because our attire, our cuisine, our lifestyle, and all our customs are different.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
A tribe is identified by its language and cultural tradition.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM
Our culture, civilization, tradition, customs, and preservation were our original identity.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Our tribe is different from others because its clothing, lifestyle, and cultural and traditional customs are all distinct from those of other communities.
— Sunil oraon
Our tribe has many distinct characteristics: be it worship, tradition, or dress and food habits. People don't identify us merely by name; when they come to know us, they partake in our food, and when they understand us, they adopt our attire. This is what makes our tribe unique, and our traditions are distinct.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
Our tribe is distinct from others because its culture and traditions are different, its languages are different. Its internal unity is also distinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
By observing our tribe's language, dances, songs, and worship festivals, one can understand that we are distinct from other communities.
— Priti majhi
These are how our tribe dresses, talks, plays, dances, sings, and celebrates festivals. We are different from other communities.
— Priti majhi
There are many things that define our tribe, such as tribal identity, a deep connection with nature, a collective lifestyle, traditional knowledge, and our connection to folk culture.
— Hemant singh Negi · Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh
Our community's identity has been shaped by culture itself, that's why
— Krishna pada mahato · Birra, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
Our tribe is different from other communities in many respects because its food habits, attire, languages, folk songs, dances, and customs are all distinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Our tribe is different from others because our language, culture, and traditions are very distinct from theirs. Our food, drink, and livelihood are also very different from theirs. That's why we are different.
— Laxmi · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
The main factors defining a tribe include common language, culture, customs, and lineage from ancestors. They have their own distinct identity which separates them from other cultures and non-tribal communities.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Social customs and definitions are the identity of a tribe.
— SUKDEV HEMBRAM · Patamda, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
The traditional practices, our culture, customs and traditions, our language, and attire of our society are very different from other societies, which sets our community apart from others.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our tribe is different from other castes because its eating habits and lifestyle are distinct. Its culture, traditions, and customs are different.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
People identify our tribe by observing our Khadia language, our attire, our conversations, and our festivals.
— Priti majhi
Our tribe is different from others because our language, culture, and traditions are very different from theirs. Our food habits and livelihood are very different from theirs. That is why we are different.
— Laxmi · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Our tribal community, our language, our songs, our forest, our seeds, our food, and our way of life – all these make us unique, and we must officially preserve them.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
Own language, attire, cultural rituals
— Krishna pada mahato · Birra, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
