{"id":7723,"date":"2024-11-13T08:33:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T03:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:00:05","slug":"gutti-koya-tribals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gutti-koya-tribals\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutti Koya Tribals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gotti Koya Tribe:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are one of the few <strong>multi-racial and multi-lingual<\/strong> tribal communities in India.<\/li>\n<li>The Koya population is concentrated in <strong>Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> They speak Koya, which is a <strong>Dravidian language. <\/strong>It is closely related to Gondi and has been strongly influenced by Telugu.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Occupation:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They practice <strong>Podu form of shifting cultivation<\/strong>, as practiced by various tribal groups in forest areas has for long been an economic survival versus environmental sustenance issue.<\/li>\n<li>They earn a living through animal husbandry and minor forest produce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Festival:<\/strong> The most important fair celebrated by Koyas is the <strong>Sammakka Saralamma Jatra<\/strong> once in two years on full moon day of the Magha Masam (January or February) at Medaram village in Mulug taluk of Warangal district.<\/li>\n<li>They held ST status in Chattisgarh but they were not granted ST status in their migrated states such as Telangana.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Society and Culture<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>All Koya belong to one of five <strong>sub-divisions called gotrams<\/strong>. Every Koya is born into a clan, and he cannot leave it.<\/li>\n<li>The Koyas have a <strong>patrilineal and patrilocal family<\/strong>. The family is called &#8220;Kutum&#8221;. The nuclear family is the predominant type.<\/li>\n<li>Monogamy is prevalent among the Koya<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Sammakka-Saralamma Jatara?<\/h3>\n<p>It is also known as Medaram Jatara. It is a tribal festival of honouring the goddesses celebrated in the state of Telangana, India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/maoist-violence-st-panel-urges-centre-states-to-submit-detailed-report-on-status-of-gotti-koya-tribals\/article68851897.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maoist violence: ST panel urges Centre, States to submit detailed report on status of Gotti Koya tribals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotti Koya Tribe is one of the few multi-racial and multi-lingual tribal communities in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7723","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\/7723","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=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}