The state of Orissa is a hub of a multitude of tribal communities that are found in every hook and corner of the region. Tadvi is an important tribe, drawing admiration of lot many people. The word Tadvi has a literal meaning, which signifies "one who taps the palm tree". This naturally suggests that these Tadvi tribes fall in to the category of forest tribal community. Some of the anthropologists have traced that these have descended from the Bhil females and Muslim males.

House building is quite exquisite, rightly depicting the cultural embellishment of these Tadvi tribes. Generally these Tadvi houses are made up from bamboo with thatched roof. Flooring too is done carefully. In fact now a days, many of these Tadvi tribes spend quite a lot of money in changing thatched roofs of their houses to that of tiles and iron sheets. Also due to the governmental initiatives, these Tadvi tribes go for making houses much larger and also well constructed. Modern facilities that these Tadvi tribes include stone flooring, more windows sheds, `open space`, individual rooms for cooking and sleeping, separate cattle sheds, and better bathroom facilities.

To maintain their livelihood majority of these Tadvi tribes practice agriculture as their chief occupation. Some of the Tadvi tribes` even work as daily laborers in the fields of the affluent landlords.

These Tadvi tribes grow crops in ample quantities both to meet their basis requirements and also for selling them in the local markets. Among cash crops, cotton, barley, and groundnuts have demands in the whole of the Indian market. Moreover, another profession that these Tadvi tribes have taken up professions of collecting and then selling these forest resources like gum or honey. Woodcutting too has also become another source of earning money.

Society of these Tadvi tribes follows the rules and norms of almost all the tribal populous of Indian subcontinent. In a normal household of a Tadvi tribe, there are near about seven people. After marrying the young Tadvi couples walk out and build separate house. Marriage is also an important institution and also has been held in high esteem by all the Tadvi tribal community. . In general, these Tadvi tribes have the tendency to follow the customs and norms of the Bhil tribal group. What is to be noted that although these Tadvi tribes share a very good relation with other tribes, the Tadvis do not encourage intermarriage between the two different tribal communities.

The physical stature of these Tadvi tribal communities is quite small with average height of Tadvi male being 5`3". Due to food habits mainly consisting of rice and vegetables, these Tadvi tribes have got stunted growth. Milk is rarely consumed.

Just like any of the tribal communities, festivals and fairs are part and parcel of their Tadvi society. These festivals mainly centered on the harvesting seasons and religious or social events. As far as the religion is concerned, Islamic followers are quite large in number. In fact ninety eight percent of the Tadvi population are Muslims. There are several tadvi people who follow Hinduism and also worship several deities. Hinglaj and Maladi are significant. Also these Tadvi tribes have developed tremendous faith on spirits and also supernatural forces. Black magic is also prevalent. Nowadays, under the influence of modern technology, these Tadvi tribes are undergoing changes.

The mother tongue of these Tadvi tribes is popularly known as Dhaka, which has a belonging to the Bhil subgroup of the famous Indo- Aryan language family.