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| Title | Article: Rescuing Cultures of India, From A to Z |
| Body | From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/asia/11tribal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Rescuing Cultures of India, From A to Z By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS November 10, 2008 In recent years some people in Tejgadh have become professional artists, one example of a deeper transformation. Modernity has been creeping in to the villages, and young people have been pouring out. But they are unprepared. They grew up speaking a language no one recognizes beyond their village, and they are inexpert in Gujarati, Hindi and English, the languages of urban employment. In the cities, they find it difficult to escape the most menial jobs. Tejgadh is home to one branch of India’s vast population of adivasis, or “original people.” Sometimes compared to Native Americans and Australia’s Aborigines, the adivasis are highly fragmented, with nearly as many languages and cultures as there are clans. With financing from the Ford Foundation and other philanthropic groups, the Adivasi Academy tries to preserve a culture by steeping a new generation of villagers in their own quickly disappearing traditions. Read the entire article at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/asia/11tribal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin . |
| Source | New York Times |
| Inputdate | 2008-11-23 11:29:09 |
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| Publishdate | 2008-11-24 00:00:00 |
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