{"id":93874,"date":"2026-03-20T12:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=93874"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:51:26","slug":"irul-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/irul-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Irul Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Irul Tribe Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masi Magam, an auspicious day in the Tamil calendar holds significance for the Irular community which is deeply tied to their culture and collective identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Irul Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are a <\/span><b>Dravidian ethnic group<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; they reside in the Nilgiri Mountains of the Western Ghats, spread across <\/span><b>Tamil Nadu and Kerala.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are one of India\u2019s <\/span><b>oldest indigenous communities.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are classified under the <\/span><b>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/particularly-vulnerable-tribal-groups-pvtgs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d category in Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They also call themselves <\/span><b>Erlar or Poosari,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while their neighbours refer to them as Eralollu, Irulas, <\/span><b>Shikari and Pujari.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Society of Irul Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Language:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They speak Irula, which is related to Dravidian languages like Tamil and Kannada.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Religious Beliefs: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Irula people don\u2019t have a definite god for them. They are pantheists who make provision for the presence of spirits in humans and objects.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their main deity is a virgin <\/span><b>goddess called Kanniamma,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who is deeply associated with the cobra.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Settlements:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Irula houses are built together in small settlements or villages called <\/span><b>mottas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mottas are usually <\/span><b>situated on the edges of steep hills<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and are surrounded by a few dry fields, gardens, and forests or plantations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Irula community is traditionally associated with <\/span><b>healing, traditional medicine, and catching poisonous snakes.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Economy:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Cattle production is another <\/span><b>source of income.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In the forests they collect wild resources like honey, frankincense, firewood and the like.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Traditional Knowledge:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Irulas\u2019 knowledge of snakes and snake venom is legendary. They can even locate snakes based on their tracks, smell, and droppings.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/an-auspicious-day-for-the-irularcommunity-to-reconnect-with-their-roots-on-the-seashores\/article70762813.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irul Tribe are a Dravidian ethnic group; they reside in the Nilgiri Mountains of the Western Ghats, spread across Tamil Nadu and Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":93865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6230,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-93874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-irul-tribe","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93874","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93874"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93985,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93874\/revisions\/93985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}