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Bharia Tribe , Madhya Pradesh
Major concentration of this Bharia tribal community is located in the Patalkot valley of Madhya Pradesh.

The beautiful state of Madhya Pradesh houses a number of tribal communities that have settled down in large numbers in every hook and nook of the region. Amongst the name of the Bharia is quite significant. The main concentration of these Bharia tribal communities is at the Patalkot valley and its adjoining regions, which is completely isolated valley some four hundred meters below Tamia in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. Interestingly, these Bharia tribes have been bestowed upon with the status of being one of the scheduled tribes of the Indian subcontinent.

There are eminent anthropologists who have conducted numerous researches on the lives of this Bharia tribal community. As per their observation, the Bharia tribes are one of the indigenous tribes of the region. Some of the tribal communities of the Indian subcontinent also identify these Bharia tribes as Bharia Bhumia.

There is another reason why these Bharia tribes have appealed to all the anthropologists of the Indian subcontinent. Since the whole of the region are quite rich in plants of the medicinal values, it is only natural that these Bharia tribes are also going to depend on these plants to meet various purposes. In fact, these Bharia tribes have set up their own system of treatment for all the heath hazards and illness.

Following the tradition of most of the tribal communities of the Indian subcontinent, these Bharia tribes have adapted to the profession of cultivation. Mainly shifting cultivation has been practiced by these Bharia tribes in order to sustain their livelihood. It becomes need less to point that the Bharia tribal community is agrarian.

Apart from cultivation, many of these Bharia tribes also used to collect various forest products like tubers, roots, and fruits and thus meet the demands of their day to day living. Nowadays also, these Bharia tribes also work as laborers in the office of the forest department. A recent survey has thrown some light on the variety of the occupation. About 38.7 percent of the people are farmers, agriculture labour comprises of 37 percent. The rest 24.3% work as forest laborers.

What is also interesting is that over the years, these Bharia tribes have maintained their originality without adapting to the customs and practices of the modern day world. In other words, these Bharia tribes is one of those tribal communities of the Indian subcontinent who are totally inaccessible and cut out from the civilized world.

Like most of the tribal communities of the Indian subcontinent, these Bharia tribes too are widely inclined to religion and spiritualism. More than ninety eight percent of the Bharia tribal community have adapted to the religion of Hinduism.

The cultural exuberance of the Bharia tribal community has rightly being reflected in all its elements. Festivals, song, dancing and what not. The societal structure too is nuclear. Near about seventy eight percent of the Bharia households follow the structure of a nuclear family. The Bharia tribal community lives in beautiful households built by their own hands. These include kutcha and semi - puccka. Almost 98.7 percent of these Bharia tribes reside in kutcha , while semi-puccka dwellers is 1.3 percent. That most of these Bharia tribes pay least attention to education and learning, is quite relevant from certain facts that has been enumerated by all the anthropologists of the Indian subcontinent. Only 11.6 percent passed the primary education and about 66.4 percent of the Bharia tribes were illiterates.

(Last Updated on : 12/12/2008)
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