{"id":47904,"date":"2025-05-13T14:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47904"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:22:08","slug":"dongria-kondh-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dongria-kondh-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Dongria Kondh Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dongria Kondh Community Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recently sought for an Action Taken Report from Odisha Chief Secretary on the precarious living condition, lack of basic amenities and necessities of life of more than 10,000 families from \u201cDongria Kondh\u201d, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) Community.<\/p>\n<h2>About Dongria Kondh Community<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG)<\/strong>\u00a0Community.<\/li>\n<li>Dongria Kondhs are ancient occupants of\u00a0<strong>Niyamgiri hills\u00a0<\/strong>spread across Kalahandi and Rayagada districts of\u00a0<strong>Odisha<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the\u00a0<strong>polytheistic animist worldview<\/strong>\u00a0of the Kondh, the\u00a0<strong>hilltops and\u00a0<\/strong>their associated\u00a0<strong>forests are regarded as supreme deities.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They derive their name from dongar, meaning \u2018hill\u2019 and the name for themselves is Jharnia: protector of streams.<\/li>\n<li>They trace their\u00a0<strong>ancestry to Niyam Raja, a mythical god-king,<\/strong>\u00a0who they believe is a\u00a0<strong>creator of the Niyamgiri hills\u00a0<\/strong>and whose stewardship has been left to them.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>forest slopes of Niyamgiri hills and streams\u00a0<\/strong>that flow from the hilltop are the\u00a0<strong>means of survival<\/strong>\u00a0for the Dongria Kondh community.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Even their art reflects the mountains,<\/strong>\u00a0in the<strong>\u00a0triangular designs found on village shrines<\/strong>\u00a0to the many gods of the village, farm and forests and their leader, Niyam Raja.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Dongria have distinctive jewellery, tattoos and hairstyles.\u00a0<strong>Women wear many rings through their ears\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>three through their noses,<\/strong>\u00a0while b<strong>oys wear two nose rings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They have\u00a0<strong>no overarching political or religious leader,<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Clans and villages have their own leaders and individuals with specific ceremonial functions, including the\u00a0<strong>beju and bejuni, male and female priests.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The kondh tribe speak two\u00a0<strong>languages namely \u201ckuyi\u201d and \u201ckuvi\u201d,<\/strong>\u00a0vocabulary which is completely unrelated to odiya, the state\u2019s official language.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>economy\u00a0<\/strong>and livelihood of Dongria kondh is dependent on\u00a0<strong>collection of Non-timber forest products (NTFPs)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>podu cultivation.\u00a0<\/strong>They are traditionally\u00a0<strong>horticulturists<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dongria Kondh Community FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Where is the Dongria tribe located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The Niyamgiri hill range in Odisha state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0Who is the mythical ancestor and spiritual protector of the Niyamgiri hills, according to Dongria Kondh beliefs?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Niyam Raja, a mythical god-king.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the primary form of livelihood for the Dongria Kondh community?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Collection of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) and Horticulture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestatesman.com\/india\/nhrc-seeks-atr-on-plight-of-odishas-primitive-tribal-group-1503431388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">STATESM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dongria Kondh are a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) in India, known for their unique culture and sustainable living in the Niyamgiri Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[507,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-dongria-kondh-community","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47904","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}