After carrying out an extensive research on various aspects of life and culture of the people of Bihar state of India, they have inferred that there are multitudes of tribal communities that have settled down here in great numbers. Khond tribes deserve to be mentioning. Similar to any other tribes of the Indian subcontinent, the Khond tribes too have developed the practice of adopting the occupations of hunting as well as cultivation.

Those who are the farmers, they usually take up the shifting cultivation. These Khond tribes are also very pious as reflected in their practices and rituals that they used to revere with enthusiasm. In the ancient times, in commemoration of their `Earth Goddess, Tara pennu` they carried old practice of giving human lives. The way the whole ceremony of sacrifice was done was also very significant. First, the sacrificial victim was devoted, bought or captivated. He was then `anointed` with oil and turmeric and then connected to the crosspiece of the pillar, which constituted an elephant. This crosspiece was then spanned and then taken round the erected post. Males and females danced and sang around the victim who was then narcotized and `intoxicated`. He was then beaten up to death and chopped into pieces.

Every Khond tribes used to take these pieces and buried it in his field in order to ensure beneficial crops and debar evil. Ultimately this gruesome practice was prohibited in the year 1845. Today, these Khond tribes go for giving goats and buffaloes as offerings. The Khond tribes also have plethora of traditional objects. These include broad range of brass images of animals and also human figures, which are revered and also taken during any of the marriage progressions.