{"id":2652,"date":"2025-05-21T14:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T09:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2025-05-21T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:28:30","slug":"irula-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/irula-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Irula Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Irula Tribe Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>In Tamil Nadu\u2019s Kunnapattu, Irula families who have lived on the land for generations face eviction and denial of rights, as nearly half remain without legal ownership or recognition.<\/p>\n<h2>About Irula Tribe<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Irula, a\u00a0<strong>Dravidian ethnic group<\/strong>, reside in the\u00a0<strong>Nilgiri Mountains of the Western Ghats<\/strong>, spread\u00a0<strong>across Tamil Nadu and Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are one of India\u2019s\u00a0<strong>oldest indigenous communities.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are Tamil Nadu\u2019s second largest Adivasi community.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are classified under the\u00a0<strong>\u201cParticularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups\u201d category in Tamil Nadu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They also call themselves Erlar or Poosari, while their neighbours refer to them as Eralollu, Irulas, Shikari and Pujari.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language<\/strong>: They speak\u00a0<strong>Irula<\/strong>, which is\u00a0<strong>related to Dravidian languages like Tamil and Kannada.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Religious Beliefs:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Irula people\u00a0<strong>don\u2019t have a definite god\u00a0<\/strong>for them. They are\u00a0<strong>pantheists\u00a0<\/strong>who\u00a0<strong>make provision for the presence of spirits in humans and objects.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Their\u00a0<strong>main deity\u00a0<\/strong>is a virgin goddess called\u00a0<strong>Kanniamma<\/strong>, who is deeply a<strong>ssociated with the cobra.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Irula houses<\/strong>\u00a0are\u00a0<strong>built together in small settlements o<\/strong>r villages\u00a0<strong>called mottas.<\/strong>\u00a0The mottas are usually situated on the edges of steep hills and are surrounded by a few dry fields, gardens, and forests or plantations.<\/li>\n<li>The Irula community is\u00a0<strong>traditionally associated with healing, traditional medicine,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>catching poisonous snakes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Cattle production is another source of income. In the forests they collect wild resources like honey, frankincense, firewood and the like.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Irulas\u2019\u00a0<strong>knowledge of snakes and snake venom is legendary<\/strong>. They can even locate snakes based on their tracks, smell, and droppings.\n<ul>\n<li>They use traditional knowledge and skills to catch snakes, extract venom, and release the snakes back into the wild without harming them.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Irula Snake Catchers\u2019 Industrial Cooperative Society<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0<strong>major producer of anti-snake venom (ASV) in the country<\/strong>. It\u00a0<strong>supplies\u00a0<\/strong>almost\u00a0<strong>80 percent<\/strong>\u00a0of the venom that goes into making anti-venom in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Irula Tribe FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the Irula tribe famous for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0They are known for their ancient and intimate knowledge of snakes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the religion of the Irular tribe?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0They practice both traditional Hinduism and pantheism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0Where do the Irula tribe primarily reside?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Nilgiri Mountains of the Western Ghats<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsminute.com\/tamil-nadu\/no-land-papers-no-rights-irulas-in-tns-kunnapattu-struggle-for-electricity-and-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NEWM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irula, a Dravidian ethnic group, reside in the Nilgiri Mountains of the Western Ghats, spread across Tamil Nadu and Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[337,21,22,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-2652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-irula-tribe","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affiars","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","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=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}