{"id":10275,"date":"2023-04-30T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10275"},"modified":"2025-03-29T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:45:30","slug":"bihan-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bihan-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihan Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bihan Mela:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is known as <strong>the seed festival<\/strong> and the event is participated by the farmers.<\/li>\n<li>Preparations begin as soon as farmers have harvested Kharif crops, which include both hybrid and indigenous varieties of paddy, millets, maize and sorghum.<\/li>\n<li>Women are at the helm of this festival and <strong>carefully collect seeds of the indigenous<\/strong> varieties and <strong>store them in earthen pots.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On a designated day in December, they <strong>decorate the pots with red and white motifs<\/strong>, place them in a bamboo basket and carry it on their head to the village where the fair is being organised.<\/li>\n<li>This was introduced to help farmers <strong>return to their traditional ways of farming<\/strong> like mixed cropping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Kondh tribe<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They are a tribal group found in the <strong>hills and jungles of Orissa in eastern India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They fall into two broad divisions.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Hill or Maliah Konds<\/strong>, who are numerically the dominant group, inhabit the interior uplands and have retained much of their original tribal culture.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Plains Konds<\/strong> have had extended contact with the Oriya-speaking peoples of the lowlands and have adopted many aspects of Hindu religion and culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They have several sub-tribes, for instance, the Dongria, Kovi, Kuttia, Languli, Penga, and Jharnia. Raj Konds etc.<\/li>\n<li>These tribal people speak languages called <strong>Kui and Kuvi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These belong to the Dravidian language family and have <strong>strong similarities to Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The language <strong>has no script of its own,<\/strong> with the Oriya script used for writing Kui, and the Telugu script used for Kuvi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who are\u00a0 Indigenous people?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Indigenous people are the original inhabitants of a particular geographic region, who have a historical and cultural connection to that land. They are also known as native, aboriginal, or first peoples.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/agriculture\/bihan-mela-a-seed-festival-aims-to-help-tribal-kondh-farmers-in-odisha-return-to-their-agricultural-traditions-88643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bihan Mela: A seed festival aims to help tribal Kondh farmers in Odisha return to their agricultural traditions<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bihan Mela is known as the seed festival and the event is participated by the farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}