{"id":26396,"date":"2025-11-30T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26396"},"modified":"2025-11-30T13:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:55:33","slug":"key-facts-about-sahariya-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-sahariya-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahariya Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Sahariya Tribe Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, in Madhya Pradesh, a Sahariya tribal woman\u2019s death puts spotlight on unending urea queues.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sahariya Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the <\/span><b>Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PVTG).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sahariya community is also called by the names <\/span><b>Seher, Sair, Savar, Saonar, Sahra, etc<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They live on the margins \u2014 in the forests and villages of <\/span><b>Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Living condition and Social Structure of Sahariya Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They mostly live in a distinct settlement <\/span><b>called \u2018Seharana\u2019 which <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is generally a <\/span><b>cluster of houses.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The houses are made of some stone boulders, and the roofing is also made of stone slabs \u2013 <\/span><b>locally called Patore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In some villages, mud structures are also constructed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Religion and Language<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Language:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> While the Sahariyas have lost their original language, they speak the local dialects of the regions they inhabit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sahariya practice their <\/span><b>traditional ethnic religions.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are known for their dance, the <\/span><b>Saharia Swang, which<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is performed during the month of Holi.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dance is performed to the beats of the dhol, nagari, and matki.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It features a male dressed in female attire who dances around the male performers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Livelihood: They are <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">predominantly <\/span><b>forest dwellers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and make their living from <\/span><b>forest produce,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> additionally cultivating small plots of land and work as landless labourers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are particularly skilled in making <\/span><b>catechu from khair trees.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/omar-cabinet-panel-clears-changes-to-get-around-jk-quota-quagmire-10393759\/?ref=infinite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sahariya tribe is a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) spread across the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,2260,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-26396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-sahariya-tribe","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26396","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=26396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}