Tag: diversity in social life

There are many tribes in India that live in the forest. These tribal people are referred to as Adivasi and are poorest of the rest of the communities. These tribal communities mainly survive and depend on agriculture, fishing and hunting for their food. The tribals in forest areas live in huts spread over the forest area.

The ‘Baisakhi’ festival of Punjab is celebrated with great pomp by all. The festival marks the time for harvest of rabi crops and they celebrate the day by performing joyful bhangra and gidda dance. This festival also has tremendous religious significance for the Sikhs.

 The Eastern and North Eastern areas hold huge potential for improvement of agribusiness, agriculture, animal husbandry, and fisheries. In the Eastern locale, permanent cultivation in the fields and shifting cultivation in slopes are the two overwhelming examples of land use. Valley agribusiness is rehearsed all through the bumpy landscape both at low also, high heights.

East India is a region of India consisting of the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal,Odisha and also the union territory Andaman and Nicobar Islands. People live traditionally in these regions engaged in conventional work and reside in rural areas with the least expensive lifestyle. Many of the men are labourers while women handle household chores.

The people of South  India are benefitted by a long sea coast. They are short and sturdy in built. Rice is the staple diet, with fish being an integral component of coastal South India. They prefer to eat on banana leaves on all important occasions. Idli, dosa, sambhar, vada are some of the famous food items and are very well-known and popular.

Different languages are spoken in Southern India. English and regional languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada are widely spoken. Tamil is spoken widely in Tamil Nadu, Kannada in Karnataka, Telugu in Andhra Pradesh and Malayalam is spoken in Kerala.

South Indian women traditionally wear the sari and adorn their hair with sweet-smelling garlands of flowers whereas men wear either a white dhoti or a colourful lungi.

The houses in South India are made of bricks, wood, bamboo, stones and mud. They have sloping roofs as it rains heavily in these areas. Sloping roofs are seen as a solution to this problem, as the water does not collect anywhere on the roof, and flows down freely.

Bhangda, the folk dance of Punjab is lively and liked by all. It is the folk dance of the agriculturist class of Punjab. Traditionally this dance is associated with the harvesting season and was performed on a full moon day.

India’s coastline is roughly 7,500 km with Arabian Sea on the West and Bay of Bengal in the East. A long coastline attracts tourism for several southern states in India like Goa, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Sea transport is much cheaper than land transport and it implies low cost of import and export interstate. There are plenty of resources like Mineral and fishing and many people engage in this work. There are variety of beaches in these states.