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out ofthe 62 Scheduled tribes, Bhuiya, Baiga, Dharua, Gaaro, Ho, Koli, Lodha, etc. are more populous. The Baiga
appears to be a branch of the great Bhuiya tribe of Madhya Pradesh.
Baiga means a sorcerer or medicine man.
The name Baiga also applies to anyone who serves as a village priest in the Central Provinces.
Zone III: South-Western
In the hills and converging line of the Western Ghats live the Chenchus, Irulas, Kadars, Ketas, Kurumbas, Jedas,
etc. having Negrito, Caucasoid, and proto-Australoid features.
This group is chiey concentrated in the southern-most parts of the Western Ghats stretching from Vindhyas to
Cape Comorin.
From the fact that they occupy the marginal areas and also from the records in the oldest Tamil literature of the
Sangam period, they appear to be one of the most ancient and primitive inhabitants of present day India.
Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamilnadu fall within this zone.
South Western Tribes
State Important tribes
AP Chenchus_and Lambadi
Karnataka Koragas, Kuruba
Kerala Koragas
Zone IV: Scattered Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar
There are various scattered tribal groups like the Andamanese and such other tribes of Andaman and Nicobar
Islands, and other Union territories.
The aborigines of the Andaman Islands may be described as a race by themselves, and can be divided into two
groups, i.e.,
Subgroups
Negrito Andamanese, the Onges and the Sentinelese.
This group is found in the Andaman group of Islands.
has an afnity with the Semangos and Sakais of Malaya, the Vedas of Sri Lanka and other Negrito
groups of South-East Asia
It is believed that these aborigines migrated from the lower regions of Burma. On their arrival at these
islands, they moved to different part of the islands and very likelyon account of the different types of
physical environment they developed different traits.
Mongoloid inhabitants of Nicobar group of islands, i.e., the Shorn Pens and the Nicobarese.
Tribals of Andaman Nicobar
conned to the western part of the south, middle and north Andamans. The Andamanese, who are
Jarawa
extremely limited in number, live along the coastal areas.
Onge inhabit the little Andaman and Rutland island
Sentinelese are found in the Sentinel island.
conned along the eastern and south-eastern coast of Great Nicobar island. They are also reported
Shorn Pens
from the banks of Dagmar, Alexandra and Galathoa rivers respectively.
Nicobarese inhabiting these small islands are highly unevenly distributed and only in the two islands, the Car
(Holchu) Nicobar and Chowra.
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