{"id":278882,"date":"2024-01-20T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T11:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=278882"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T08:34:48","slug":"soligas-and-yeravas-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/soligas-and-yeravas-tribes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief About Soligas and Yeravas Tribes in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source-<\/strong>This post is based on the article “What do tribal groups like the Soligas and Yeravas eat?<\/strong>” published in “DownToEarth<\/strong>” on 14th January 2024.<\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/h2>\n

A Brief About Soligas and Yeravas Tribes<\/strong>, A newly released book “Forgotten Trails: Foraging Wild Edibles,” documents the wild foods gathered by the Soligas and Yeravas tribes from the forests.<\/p>\n

About Soligas<\/h2>\n
\"Soliga\"
Source- Institute of Public health Bangalore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Aspect\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nDetails<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
About<\/strong><\/td>\n1. The Soligas are an indigenous community residing in the Cauvery Basin<\/span> and the surrounding hills of peninsular India.
\n2. They are the original inhabitants of Karnataka<\/span>, primarily residing in the Chamarajanagar and Mandya districts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Language<\/strong><\/td>\nThey speak Sholaga<\/span>, which belongs to the Dravidian family.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Religion<\/strong><\/td>\n1. The Soliga people adhere to a blend of naturism, animism, and Hindu practices.
\n2. Their primary deity is Madeshwara<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Characteristics<\/strong><\/td>\n1. Honey<\/span> plays a vital role in the Soliga diet.
\n2. The community continuing to forage a significant portion of their food from the biodiversity-rich Ghats.
\n3. They live in the forest outskirts near Biligiri Rangana Hills and Male Mahadeshwara hills<\/span> in Chamarajanagar district.
\n4. They have become the first tribal communit<\/span>y residing within the core region of an Indian tiger reserve to have their forest rights formally acknowledged<\/span> by a court of law.
\n5. Soligas eat Silver cockscomb<\/span> as a healthy leafy green, rich in beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin E, calcium, and iron.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Note-<\/strong> The scientific community has named a new genus of wasp (Soliga ecarinata)<\/span> in honor of this community.<\/p>\n

About Yeravas<\/h2>\n
\"Yereva\"
Source-Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Aspect<\/strong><\/td>\nDetails<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
About<\/strong><\/td>\n1. They are also an indigenous community<\/span> residing in the Cauvery Basin and the surrounding hills of peninsular India.
\n2. They migrated from the Wayanad district in Kerala and established their settlement in the Kodagu district<\/span> of the state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Language<\/strong><\/td>\nThey speak Revula<\/span> language.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Religion<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Yeravas people practice Hinduism while they also believe in spirits residing in natural elements like trees, mountains, and rivers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Characteristics<\/strong><\/td>\n1. They are mostly agricultural laborers in coffee plantations and tea estates.<\/span>
\n2. Yeravas incorporate a higher quantity of tubers<\/span> into their diet compared to Soligas.
\n3. Yeravas include mushrooms in their diet during the monsoon season.
\n4. Their settlements are called ‘Kunju<\/span>‘.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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  Source-This post is based on the article “What do tribal groups like the Soligas and Yeravas eat?” published in “DownToEarth” on 14th January 2024. Why in the News? A Brief About Soligas and Yeravas Tribes, A newly released book “Forgotten Trails: Foraging Wild Edibles,” documents the wild foods gathered by the Soligas and Yeravas… Continue reading A Brief About Soligas and Yeravas Tribes in 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,11211],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-278882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278882","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\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}