Adivasi
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Adivasi
Sanskrit, from adi beginning + vasi dweller
Example Sentences
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In the heart of Daudhan, 48-year-old Mahesh Adivasi sat with a group of men, who voiced their dissent in the form of a protest song.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2025
M. Alwas, who heads the Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association in Kotagiri, a nonprofit that aims to help tribes in the region, said one of the main challenges is getting the younger generation involved.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
There, he set up the Adivasi Academy, which has a multilingual school, a health center and a library of over 60,000 books, including a section devoted to tribal archives.
From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2022
Despite that, he said, the number of Dalit and Adivasi priests, nuns and bishops is disproportionately low.
From Washington Post • May 16, 2022
The organization that Swamy founded, Bagaicha, found 3,000 such Adivasi prisoners in Jharkhand alone in 2016, and concluded that 97 percent of those charged as Maoists were innocent of that offense.
From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2021
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