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Jodia Poraja
(7,432 words)
Poraja (Porajā; or Porja or Paroja) is an umbrella category (Odi.
prajā, peasant subjects of a king) that includes various social subgroups (Pengo, Jodia, Barong Jodia, Chhelia, Kond, Sodia, and Solia) living in south Odisha and the Chhattisgarh area. They are 247,000 in number according to the 1981 census of India. Among them, the Jodia (or Joria or Jhodia) Poraja live mostly on the Koraput plateau, close to the Gadaba and Parenga tribes (see Berger, 2002). They originally spoke a Dravidian language, but…
Date:
2021-11-10
Central India: Introduction
(15,054 words)
I. Introduction – II. Transformation of Rituals to Art
Introduction For our purposes here, central India is taken to include Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh, as well as adjoining parts of West Bengal, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. Much of the area is hilly, with a forest coverage that comes close to 70% in Odisha’s Kandhamal district, while 44% of Chhattisgarh is covered by deciduous forest. Interspersed among the highlands, fertile pockets dot the landscape, often in the rive…
Date:
2021-11-10
