Hey all!!
Hameed Catel here, creator of the Almier project. Now very early on in the series, some of my main characters will be in India and one of them will be from India. So I had to research India if I was to depict an accurate representation of how things really are there. During my research, I came across an interesting story which I am surprised I didn’t know before. So I decided to share this particular story with you all. It’s about the Adivasis.
Now it's no secret that India's economy is fast growing and diverse but one particular group are being left behind drastically. The Adivasis are on the lowest rung of India’s social and economic ladder, the poorest of the poor. They’re a loose collection of tribes and villages in the jungles of central and eastern India and for generations have scraped together a living off farming and the spoils of the land. Believed to be the first ones to live in India, they’re about 84 million in number (8% of India’s population). To help you put that into perspective think of it this way, there are about 64 million people in the UK; so imagine everyone in the UK (and then some) living below the poverty line or on the edge of starvation.
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| The Adivasis - normal people like me and you |
