Keonjhar: The Santhal tribal community of Kendujoda village in Keonjhar's Saharapada block celebrated their traditional Serpasale festival on Saturday with vibrant cultural displays, song and ...

What Soren practices is not only the revival of an age-old tradition of the Santhal tribes, but also a scientific behaviour regarding drinking water hygiene. Palojori, the administrative block ...

Ranchi, Sept. 2: Till now, one had heard of a village headman. How about a village headwoman? Devimai Murmu has scripted history by winning a decade-old legal battle to become the first head of ...

BARIPADA: Thousands of people from the Santhal tribe flocked Baruni Ghat here to immerse mortal remains of their ancestors here on Tuesday as part of the three-day annual ritual called ‘Jilling ...

Jamshedpur, May 29: The state is weaving new dreams for Santhal women. Jharcraft, a corporation under the state industries department to promote handloom and handicraft items, has started an applique ...

Earlier the number of tribals in Santhal was 44% which has now decreased to 28%. The Central Government has further said that Santhal includes not only infiltration but also conversion and migration.

According to the data presented before the High Court citing the National Census, the tribal population in Santhal Pargana region has decreased from 44.67 per cent in 1951 to 28.11 per cent in 2011.

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” ― Emma Goldman The Santhal rebellion , commonly known as Santhal Hool, was a native rebellion in ...

Daman Murmu, one of the few surviving artists who perform Chadar Badar, an ancient form of Santhal puppetry, wants to pass on this art to as many people as he can. However, so far he has got only ...

Much less well known is the tribal uprising of the Santhal, a Munda ethnic group native to present-day Jharkhand. The 19th century witnessed innumerable movements, but the ones like the Santhal ...

Karnamoni Hasda, a nine-year-old Santhal tribal girl, tied the knot with a street dog in the presence of more than a hundred guests at a marriage ceremony held at Khanyan in West Bengal's Hooghly ...