{"id":239202,"date":"2023-04-22T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T14:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=239202"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T10:23:30","slug":"hakki-pikkis-caught-in-sudan-conflict-why-this-tribe-of-bird-catchers-travels-to-africa-from-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hakki-pikkis-caught-in-sudan-conflict-why-this-tribe-of-bird-catchers-travels-to-africa-from-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakki Pikkis caught in Sudan conflict: Why this tribe of bird catchers travels to Africa from Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cHakki Pikkis caught in Sudan conflict: Why this tribe of bird catchers travels to Africa from Karnataka\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 22nd April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

More than 181 members of the Hakki Pikki tribal community from Karnataka are stuck in violence-hit Sudan, even as the government is making efforts to bring them back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Hakki-Pikki Tribe?<\/b><\/h2>\n

\u2018Hakki-Pikki\u2019 is one of the major tribal communities in Karnataka.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Kannada, the word \u2018Hakki\u2019 stands for \u2018bird’ and \u2018Pikki\u2019 stands for the verb \u2018to catch\u2019. Therefore, the community is known as the \u2018bird catcher,\u2019 which is their traditional occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The community migrated from Northern India – mainly Gujarat and Rajasthan to Karnataka. <\/span>According to the 2011 census, the Hakki Pikki population in Karnataka is 11,892.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Language: <\/b>Despite being surrounded by Dravidian languages and living in southern India, the community speaks an Indo-Aryan language. Their mother tongue was designated ‘Vaagri’ by scholars.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 UNESCO has listed ‘Vaagri’ as one of the endangered languages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rituals and Customs:<\/b> Hakki Pikkis in Karnataka follow Hindu traditions and celebrate all Hindu festivals. They are non-vegetarians. The eldest son in a family is not supposed to cut his hair so that he can be identified easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The tribe prefers cross-cousin marriages. The society is matriarchal, where the groom gives dowry to the bride\u2019s family<\/span><\/p>\n

Occupation:<\/b> Hakki-Pikkis are renowned for their indigenous medicines. The community resided in the dense jungles for a long time and created its own plant and herb-based medicine systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Their herbal oil business took off, and now the tribe members go to many places across the globe to sell their products.<\/p>\n

\u2013 In 2021, the Hakki-Pikki tribes came into the limelight after they survived the Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cHakki Pikkis caught in Sudan conflict: Why this tribe of bird catchers travels to Africa from Karnataka\u201d published in Indian Express on 22nd April 2023 What is the News? More than 181 members of the Hakki Pikki tribal community from Karnataka are stuck in violence-hit Sudan, even… Continue reading Hakki Pikkis caught in Sudan conflict: Why this tribe of bird catchers travels to Africa from Karnataka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[11471,10500],"class_list":["post-239202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-hakki-pikki-tribe","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700195155},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}