{"id":30764,"date":"2025-02-27T09:43:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30764"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:38:15","slug":"cholanaikkan-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cholanaikkan-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholanaikkan Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cholanaikkan Tribe Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>In a novel attempt to provide education to a bed-ridden girl belonging to the Cholanaikkan tribe, the Samagra Shiksha Kerala programme of the general education department has prepared 30 audio-visual texts in the tribe\u2019s own distinct language.<\/p>\n<h2>About Cholanaikkan Tribe<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are a <strong>diminishing tribe<\/strong> of India. With a population of <strong>less than 400 members<\/strong>, it is one of the most isolated tribes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>They reside deep inside the Karulai and Chungathara forest ranges of <strong>Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is in the <strong>Nilambur region<\/strong> of the Malappuram district in the state of <strong>Kerala<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They are classified as a <strong>Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group<\/strong> (PVTG).<\/li>\n<li>The community <strong>prefers to stay isolated<\/strong> and away from both agrarian and urban lifestyles.<\/li>\n<li>They are among those unique tribes that <strong>still depend largely on forest produce <\/strong>for their survival.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Also known as <strong>\u201cCaveman of Kerala\u201d<\/strong>, even to the present date, they <strong>use natural caves as a safe dwelling space<\/strong> in the forest.<\/li>\n<li>The community speaks a <strong>distinct Dravidian language called Cholanaikkan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Cholanaikkan Tribe FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> Which is the largest tribe in Kerala?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The largest tribe in Kerala is the Paniyan tribe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> Which is the largest tribe in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Bhil is the largest tribal group in India as per 2011 Census.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>What is the rarest tribe in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Sentinelese are the most isolated Indigenous people on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/education-comes-home-to-bed-ridden-tribal-girl\/article69263061.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cholanaikkan Tribe is an indigenous group in India, known for their unique culture and traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30764","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\/30764","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=30764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}