{"id":63571,"date":"2025-12-28T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=63571"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:07:07","slug":"ho-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ho-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ho Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ho Tribe Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ho Samaj Yuva Mahasabha (AHSYM) recently called upon tribal people not to celebrate picnics but to observe \u2018Black Day\u2019 on January 1 and 2. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ho Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Ho, or Kolha,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> people are an <\/span><b>Austroasiatic Munda ethnic group<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They call themselves the <\/span><b>Ho, Hodoko, and Horo, which mean \u2018human<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 in their own language.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are mostly <\/span><b>concentrated<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>Kolhan region of Jharkhand and Odisha, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where they constitute around 10.7% and 7.3% of the total Scheduled Tribe population, respectively, as of 2011.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ho also inhabit adjacent areas in the neighboring states of <\/span><b>Odisha, West Bengal, and Bihar.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They also live in <\/span><b>Bangladesh and Nepal.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Ho people speak the <\/span><b>Ho language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an <\/span><b>Austroasiatic language <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">closely related to Mundari.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Occupation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The <\/span><b>majority <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Ho tribe is involved in <\/span><b>agriculture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, either as landowners or labourers, while <\/span><b>others are engaged in mining.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>men and women<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of this community<\/span><b> wear very minimal dress. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The women prefer to wear tribal jewelleries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Women have higher status<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> among the Ho <\/span><b>than they do in most tribes.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Dance is very important<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Ho culture. <\/span><b>Most village<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s have a <\/span><b>dedicated dancing ground, called akhra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, usually consisting of a cleared space of hard ground under a spreading tree.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traditional Ho music incorporates native <\/span><b>instruments, including a dama (drum), dholak, dumeng (mandar), and the rutu (flute).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Religion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The majority of the Ho have their <\/span><b>own nature-based religion (Sarnaism)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that doesn&#8217;t fit in with Hinduism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\">They have a <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">village priest called a deuri.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/ranchi-news\/ho-tribal-group-calls-for-black-day-observance-101766768204663.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ho tribe, meaning \u201chuman\u201d in their language, is an Austroasiatic Munda group concentrated in Jharkhand, Odisha, and parts of East India. 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