{"id":27365,"date":"2025-02-24T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27365"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:37:40","slug":"soliga-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/soliga-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Soliga Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Soliga Tribe Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the Prime Minister of India made a reference to the Soliga Tribal people of BRT Tiger Reserve in the 119th edition of Mann Ki Baat and appreciated their contribution to tiger conservation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Soliga Tribes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are a group of <strong>indigenous, forest-dwelling people<\/strong> found mostly in <strong>Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The term <strong>&#8220;Soliga&#8221; literally translates<\/strong> to &#8220;<strong>children of bamboo&#8221;,<\/strong> which reflects the tribe&#8217;s relationship with nature and their belief that they too have emerged from it.<\/li>\n<li>They reside in the peripheral forest areas near <strong>Biligiri Rangana Hills and Male Mahadeshwara Hills.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Soligas was the <strong>first tribal community living inside a tiger reserve<\/strong> and getting their forest rights recognised by a court in a judgment in 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language of Soliga Tribes : <\/strong>The Dravidian language sholaga is spoken by the Soliga. They also speak Kannada and Tamil.<\/li>\n<li>The Soligas live in single-room huts, built of bamboo and mud.<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>believe in coexisting with the environment<\/strong> and have indigenous ways of using nature to make unique utility products, such as the \u2018jottai\u2019, which is a cup made out of leaves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion of Soliga Tribes :<\/strong> Along with adhering to Hindu customs, the Soliga people <strong>practice naturism and animism.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Economy of Soliga Tribes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The traditional economy of the Soliga is mostly <strong>based on shifting cultivation<\/strong> and collection of <strong>minor forest produce.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Honey is an important part of the diet for the Soliga people, who still forage large parts of their food from the biodiversity-rich Ghats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Soliga Tribe FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> Which caste is Soliga?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Soligaru, more popularly known as Soliga, is a Scheduled Tribe of Mysore State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> What language do the Soliga tribe speak?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Sholaga<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong> What is the population of Soliga?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> According to the 2011 Census, the population of Soliga is about 33,871 in Karnataka and 5,965 in Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/pm-modi-praises-soliga-tribes-for-their-role-in-tiger-conservation-in-mann-ki-baat\/article69254558.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soliga Tribe are a group of indigenous, forest-dwelling people found mostly in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27365","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\/27365","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=27365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}